by Dr. Melissa Carr | Jun 17, 2026 | brain health, Digestion, Exercise, Food, Health Tips, Healthy Habits, Life Lessons, mental health, My Nutrition Book, Traditional Chinese Medicine
The other day, I caught myself doing something I’ve done thousands of times. I took my reading glasses off my face and automatically perched them on top of my head. A few minutes later, as I went to take them off again, I felt the familiar tug. A few hairs were...
by Dr. Melissa Carr | Jan 20, 2022 | Exercise, headache, Health Tips, Healthy Habits, How-to, neck pain
Sometimes you wake up with a kink in your neck and you don’t have a treatment booked to address it right away. This happened to me the other day, so I decided to create a video showing how you can be prepared and treat yourself at home in just a few minutes....
by Dr. Melissa Carr | Mar 28, 2021 | Acupuncture, Back Pain, Exercise, Health Tips, Healthy Habits, Pain, workplace wellness
We’re now more than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic and many of us are feeling the neck and back pains of poor posture related to working from home, binge watching tv, assembling puzzles, or crafting. I can relate to that last one, as I found needle felting...
by Dr. Melissa Carr | Mar 29, 2020 | Exercise, Food, Happiness, Health Tips, Healthy Habits
CONTEST! Staying on top of healthy habits like exercising, eating nutritious food, limiting junk food, maintaining social connections, curbing tv and other screen time, and practicing gratitude can be tough at the best of times. But in these days of COVID-19...
by Dr. Melissa Carr | Jan 28, 2020 | Exercise, Food, Health Tips, Healthy Habits, holistic health, Sleep
When I do an Instagram search of #selfcare, it shows up (as of this very moment) as 22,953,025 posts. Most of those are beauty posts (so many products) and cheesy memes that flash across your screen but change little. Self care is so much more than this. Don’t...
by Dr. Melissa Carr | Feb 29, 2016 | Exercise, Health Tips, Healthy Habits, Heart health, mental health, Traditional Chinese Medicine
This is a leap year, so February 29th is kind of like a bonus day. Do you often think that you don’t have enough time to do the things you need to do or want to do? Well, this year you have an extra 24 hours, so what will you do? Here are some healthy...
