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Intentional Tidbits
A Health & Wellness Blog to Inform, Educate and Enlighten.



Pain Science Part 4: Anxiety’s Role in Pain with 11 Ideas to help yourself.
Anxiety is a feeling of worry, nervousness or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome. ...
Jen Hassaj
Aug 23, 20235 min read


Pain Science Part 3: The Cycles of Pain.
People living with chronic pain often compare their lives to a roller coaster, with good days where they feel somewhat in control, and...
Jen Hassaj
Aug 9, 20234 min read


Pain Science Part 2: New Discovery into Why We Hurt.
As we already know pain is a message from the brain about a credible threat to our safety which is designed to make us take a specific...
Jen Hassaj
Jul 26, 20233 min read


Pain Science Part 1: What Pain Is, The Types and Categories of Pain and How We Hurt.
Pain is a universal experience, something we all have felt it in our own ways. Whether the pain we felt was sharp and stabbing, a deep...
Jen Hassaj
Jul 12, 20235 min read


Toxic Emotions Part 4: But what about Toxic Positivity?!?
In Part 3 we were focusing on actions to begin taking so we can have all of the health gains that come with positivity. So, I have a...
Jen Hassaj
Jun 28, 20233 min read


Toxic Emotions Part 3: 15 Actions and Strategies to Detox from Toxic Emotions.
How to Detox Ourselves from Toxic Emotions As we learned in Part 2, Toxic Emotions can affect our health in numerous ways. Now I want to...
Jen Hassaj
Jun 14, 20234 min read


Toxic Emotions Part 2: 7 ways Toxic Emotions impact our Mental and Physical Health.
Simply put toxic emotions can make you sick. As I noted in part 1, when toxic emotions are left unchecked, they can and will impact our...
Jen Hassaj
May 31, 20233 min read


Toxic Emotions Part 1: Understanding Toxic Emotions
What are Toxic Emotions? The term toxic emotions include feelings of anger, guilt, unforgiveness, shame, anxiety, fear, self-loathing,...
Jen Hassaj
May 17, 20232 min read


Gratitude Part 3: 16 Simple Ways to Practice Gratitude.
The first and second parts of this series gave you an understanding of just what gratitude is and all of its amazing benefits. Today we...
Jen Hassaj
May 3, 20234 min read


Gratitude Part 2: Why Is It So Important? Here are 20 Benefits of Practicing Gratitude.
As you will see the positive effects of experiencing and expressing gratitude are endless. It has been described as being contagious...
Jen Hassaj
Apr 19, 20234 min read


Gratitude Part 1: What is Gratitude?
First of all, what exactly is gratitude? We are all taught to say ‘thank you’ to others when they give us a gift, or are kind to us in a...
Jen Hassaj
Apr 5, 20232 min read


Self-Love Part 3: 12 Tips to Cultivate Self-love in your life.
For the final part in this series concerning self-love, I will give you 12 tips and suggestions that you can begin doing right away to...
Jen Hassaj
Mar 22, 20234 min read


Self-Love Part 2: The Benefits of Practicing Self-love.
The first part in the self-love series helped us to understand just what self-love is and gave us some framework for identifying...
Jen Hassaj
Mar 8, 20233 min read


Self-Love Part 1: What self-love is and what it is not.
What does “Self-Love” really mean? Self-love, by definition, is love of self, or regard for one’s own happiness or advantage. It is a...
Jen Hassaj
Feb 22, 20233 min read


Healthy Eating Part-3: 15 Simple Changes that could start you on your Healthy Eating Lifestyle.
Change is difficulty for many of us, especially when we are trying to change something that we really enjoy or that gives us pleasure. ...
Jen Hassaj
Feb 8, 20234 min read


Healthy Eating Part-2: 13 Habits to Encourage and 8 Habits to Try to Change for Healthier Eating.
The food we eat can affect our health, our mood and our risk for certain diseases. To aim for eating healthier we may need to change...
Jen Hassaj
Jan 25, 20233 min read


Healthy Eating Part-1: Big Picture Topics & Tips for Eating Better by Following a Healthy Diet
It’s a New Year, you can choose to be a better you- beginning with eating healthy. When we are talking about having a healthy diet, we...
Jen Hassaj
Jan 11, 20234 min read


Sleep Health Part-4: 8 Complimentary Health approaches that could improve your sleep.
For the final part of this series concerning Sleep Health, we are going to discuss some Complimentary Health options that you can begin...
Jen Hassaj
Dec 28, 20225 min read


Sleep Health Part-3: 8 Tips for Adjusting your Sleep Environment for your Best Night’s Sleep.
This is the 3rd part in the Sleep Health series- just to review the previous were 5 Strategies to Help You Sleep Well , followed by 6...
Jen Hassaj
Dec 14, 20224 min read


Sleep Health Part-2: 6 Tips to Help You Ease into Sleep
In building from the last blog: 5 Strategies to Help you Sleep Well we are now going to focus on preparing your body and mind for the...
Jen Hassaj
Nov 30, 20223 min read
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