It's been said that you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. While we often think about healthy living as largely a sum of eating habits and activity level, sometimes we tend to forget about the importance of mental health and surrounding ourselves with healthy, positive people to help us lead healthier lives ourselves. When I was a student at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition to become a health coach, we talked a lot about what we refer to as 'primary food' - the things that feed you that aren't food, like relationships, career, physical activity and a social life. Relationships are such a big aspect of health, and they have the power to bring us up or hold us down throughout our lives in such significant ways. I got to thinking about this topic ... [Read More]