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Find your color, access some calm

Color walks, an exercise where people try to find objects in a certain color while on the go, are rising in popularity on social media and experts say the simple practice can have profound effects on mindfulness and health.

Beyond the basics: Unique New Year's resolutions for a fulfilling year

Move beyond typical resolutions! Your roadmap to a refreshed and revitalized you in the new year.

Kaila Curry, Audience Engagement Producer

Yoga is a path to healing for mothers

I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with a few of the powerhouses behind Whole Mama Yoga to talk about the ways yoga can positively impact a mother's life.

Crissy Fishbane, WRAL contributor

How to practice mindfulness at any age

Mindfulness, I'm sure you've at least heard the phrase before. But what is mindfulness?

Delaney Eyermann, WRAL multiplatform producer

4 tips to help you slow down this holiday season

Our bodies and minds need space to slow down as the winter season's darker days inherently call us to hibernate cozily while awaiting the renewal of spring.

Emily Behr, Growga

Pause, reflect and breathe: Finding magic in the mundane

As a community on the Growga Collective, we are learning about and diving into "attention" this month and exploring how our attention can shift our perspective and frame of mind.

Emily Behr, Growga

Slow Down

A daily mindfulness practice is associated with decreased anxiety and depression, improved management of chronic pain (especially for those for whom nothing else has worked), Improved cardiovascular health, lower blood pressure, improved emotion regulation and many other benefits.

Liisa Ogburn

Tips for parenting mindfully during turbulent times

Sarah Harris, is a licensed marriage and family therapist, a registered play therapist supervisor and a board certified telemental health provider. Inspired by her family, she wanted to learn how she herself could have a successful marriage and family. And she now helps others through her group private practice that provides exclusively virtual therapy to individuals, children, couples and families.

Sara Davison, founder of Kinly

Free monthly yoga, mindfulness program for kids continues virtually at art museum

Just a quick reminder that the N.C. Museum of Art's monthly Growga Yoga sessions are continuing into 2021.

Sarah Lindenfeld Hall, Go Ask Mom editor

UNC experts: Balance emotions on high-interest Election Day

UNC experts discuss the need for wellness and emotional support on Election Day.

Practice mindfulness during difficult times

A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll suggests 80% of Americans say things are out of control in the U.S. From the pandemic, to protests over the deaths of African Americans in police custody, it's a tense time. For some advice on how to build ourselves and our community up when it's broken, Cole Baker-Bagwell joined WRAL News.

Helping kids as she helps their working parents; a Raleigh business owner offers guided stillness

Cole Baker-Bagwell has navigated plenty of ups and downs. She's built a successful company, worked through a divorce and returned to the corporate world during the 2008 financial crisis, only to find she had joined a toxic workplace.

Sarah Lindenfeld Hall, Go Ask Mom editor

Take advantage of the hours at home

It might seem difficult to be productive during this time, but there is so much you can get done. Cole Baker Bagwell discussed taking advantage of the many hours at home.

4 easy ways for parents to incorporate mindfulness into our daily lives

Mindfulness does not have to be hard. So often, we get these ideas of what it looks like to be mindful. We imagine a person alone on a beach (no kids ...) looking out over the water, wearing white and we think ... welp, that will never be us. End of story.

Emily Behr, Growga owner

10 ways to improve your mental health in 2020

As the new year begins, many people are resolving to pay more attention to their mental and emotional wellness in 2020.

Program aims to help improve the mental health of teens and parents

This program will teach parents and teenagers to be more compassionate to themselves and hopes to alleviate depression.

Mindful May: Free series offers up mindfulness programs for the entire family

Growga, a local business that offers yoga and mindfulness programs, will a launch a series of free, family events on the American Tobacco Campus' amphitheater lawn this month.

Sarah Lindenfeld Hall, Go Ask Mom editor

As stressful school year begins, tips to help equip your child's mind with C.A.L.M.

We get our kids physically ready for a new school year, but we often overlook our children's mental preparedness as we approach this new season. Not only are our children nervous about what is to come, but they feel pressure to perform. This anxiety can take a toll on their mental health.

Emily Behr, Kids Mindful Movement owner

Fear

Sometimes old coping mechanisms don't work in new situations. Sometimes we are forced to change. It's not always a bad thing.

Liisa Ogburn

Chatham County mom opens yoga, mindfulness studio for kids in Pittsboro

Kids Mindful Movement, a yoga and mindfulness studio designed for infants to teens, opened last month at 184 East St., Pittsboro.

Sarah Lindenfeld Hall, Go Ask Mom editor