by Marie-Josee Shaar | Apr 17, 2017 | Uncategorized
When I first moved to the United States, I hadn’t quite mastered the English language. When I met one of my new neighbors, a pastor in his 70s, I asked, “Larry, do souls have sex?” He was quite surprised by my question, and didn’t know how to...
by Marie-Josee Shaar | Mar 25, 2017 | Blog, Uncategorized
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything, and a lot has changed in that time! As many of you may know, I became the most blessed mom in the world. Baby James is the biggest bundle of joy I could have ever imagined. As busy as I’ve been as a mother, a lot has...
by Marie-Josee Shaar | Jul 28, 2016 | Blog, Mood and Positive Psychology, Reasons to act, Wellness Leadership, Worksite Wellness
“Do you enjoy going to work every day?” may be one of the most pertinent yet most overlooked health promotion questions ever asked. It turns out that whoever said that work isn’t work unless it is tedious, tiring, or painful had it all wrong. After studying well-being...
by Marie-Josee Shaar | Jul 28, 2016 | Blog, Reasons to act, Wellness Leadership
I was blessed with a mother who is a total rock star in the kitchen. As I was growing up, she dutifully taught me all that she could. So I like to think that I know what I’m doing in a kitchen, and if my husband were given a chance to comment, he’d say that I’m being...
by Marie-Josee Shaar | Jul 10, 2016 | Blog, Exercise and Fitness, Food and Nutrition, Mood and Positive Psychology, Reasons to act, Wellness Culture, Wellness Leadership
Have you ever noticed that what we consider to be normal today is really anything but? Normal usually means sleep-deprived, overfed yet under nourished, overstressed and inactive. Let’s take a closer look at the current lifestyle of the average American adult, and...
