The Stages of Change
Break a habit. Achieve a goal. Transform your life. Here’s a look at the six parts of Prochaska’s stages of change.
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Lessons From a Life Coach
Looking to make some positive changes in your life? Certified professional life coach Kate Larsen shows you how. Apply her four-step system to your personal and career goals — and prepare to discover some interesting things about yourself in the process.
Why Your Fitness Mindset Matters
The key to sticking with a workout program may be strengthening the “muscle” between your ears.
Tips for Creating a Sustainable Fitness Plan
Take the time to step back and examine your goals, your desires, your personality, your life. A little self-awareness now could prevent exercise derailment later.
The Sixth Stage of Grief
How finding meaning in loss can help you heal.
Switch!: How to Create Lasting Change
Brilliant ways to change things for the better — even when change is hard.
How We Change
Founding editor, Pilar Gerasimo, on the challenges — and successes — we face as we embrace change.
Active Planning: How to Create a Fitness Plan That Actually Works
The success of your fitness goals depends, in large part, on the soundness of your fitness strategy. You do have a fitness plan, don’t you? Here’s how to get one, fast — or how to make your current plan even better.
How to Raise an Athlete
Long-Term Athlete Development is an important method for growing kids’ athletic abilities — and one you’ve probably never heard of.
The Meaning of Grief
Grief expert David Kessler explains the importance of the “sixth stage of grief.”
How to Raise an Athlete
Long-Term Athlete Development is an important method for growing kids’ athletic abilities — and one you’ve probably never heard of.
Your Brain in Love
The science behind lust, attraction, and attachment — and the enduring mysteries that data can’t explain.
How Appreciating Your Healthy Achievements Can Lead to Greater Health Success
Before you set healthy goals, stop and appreciate what you’ve already accomplished. A quick look back may be the best tool for evaluating what comes next.
The Power of Reflection
Once you understand the stages of power, it becomes quite easy to recognize the type of power that you and those around you are currently wielding, and what type of power you might focus on developing next.
In Praise of Change
In need of new energy and excitement? Consider some strategic gear shifting.
Resolutions Workshop: Support Tactics
You’ve crafted your New Year’s resolutions with care. Now comes the tricky part: translating intention into action — ideally, the ongoing kind. For this, you need more than a wing and a prayer. You need pragmatic support systems and the good sense to put them to work.
Raising the Bar on Life After Loss: Q&A With Christina Rasmussen
Grief counselor and best-selling author of Second Firsts: Live, Laugh, and Love Again, Christina Rasmussen shares her advice on how to rebuild a life after loss — and opens up about her own experience with grief and healing.
Should You Co-Sleep With Your Baby?
Most people around the world share their beds with an infant. If you choose to do this, James McKenna, PhD, offers some tips to be as safe as possible.
What Happens During Your Sleep Cycle
Plus, how lifestyle habits can throw it off.
One Loop at a Time
There was a time, not so very long ago, when I was less healthy than I am today. And I hope, looking back five years from now, that I can say the same thing.
The Art of the Relapse: How to Stop Falling Back Into Old Habits
Instead of feeling like a failure when you fall back into old, unhealthy behaviors, consider embracing your relapses as mile markers on your route to success.