Add these fun, family&#x2d;friendly activities to your winter bucket list for increased health and happiness this season.

Michelle von Hahn loves living a healthy lifestyle and will often be found cooking and baking recipes, which can be viewed on her Healthy Num Num blog and Instagram page (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/healthynumnumblog/">@healthynumnumblog</a>).

Happiness

Natural is the way. We bring you credible approaches to preventative health, holistic treatments, and supportive supplements.

Health

Life is busy, and it can be easy to put off activities that bring us joy and strength—but there’s nothing more important than learning to seize the day and start living now.

Isabela Vera is an independent consultant, PhD candidate, and writer focused on sustainable food systems.

Life is about balance. We provide you with strategies for a lifelong commitment to strength and well-being in all areas of your life. 

Lifestyle

Building up your cognitive reserve may be a way to offset age&#x2d;related changes in cognition, including memory and decision making.

Theodore D. Cosco, PhD (Cantab) CPsychol, is an Assistant Professor of Mental Health and Aging (Simon Fraser University) and Research Fellow (Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford).

Aging

Join us as we explore ways we can benefit from the power of togetherness.

Amy Green is a writer, counsellor, and registered psychologist based in Salmon Arm, BC

Mental Health

Have you ever looked on with envy at the positivity of others? Well, good news: it turns out that optimism is a skill you can learn.

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Deena Kara Shaffer, PhD, is a learning specialist and lecturer at Ryerson University, co-creator of the Thriving in Action initiative, and owner of Awakened Learning, resilience-based educational coaching and consulting.

Optimism

Finding yourself gleefully counting down the days before your next vacation? Learn how to maximize the happy feeling of trip planning.

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Carimé Lane is a Toronto-based freelance writer and lawyer.

Wintertime offers an opportunity to embrace hygge, characterized by a state of coziness, connection, and comfort. You might even learn to love winter.

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Nordic Diet

Many of us are searching for how to be happy. Happiness doesn't depend on luck, wealth, or circumstance. Follow these tips to create lasting happiness.

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Dona Sturmanis is a freelance writer and editor in Kelowna, BC. She specializes in articles about food, health, and extraordinary people.

How our age affects happiness

Joshua Duvauchelle is a regular alive contributor and certified personal trainer.

Longevity

For a longer, happier life

Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen is a full-time Vancouver-based freelance writer, alive contributor, and the author of <a href="https://amzn.to/2L8h6s2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Growing Forward When You Can’t Go Back</a> (Baker House Publishing, January 2019).

Emotional Health

Creative healing at any age

Charlotte Spafford has a BA in psychology and is an art therapist at Spark Art Therapy, located in Vancouver.

Amy Wood is a freelance writer and former editor at alive magazine.

Happiness

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Happy Days

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Live With Purpose

Happy Hours, Happy Days

Art Therapy

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