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Tips to Ease Into Minimalist Living
Best-selling author Joshua Becker explains how downsizing your possessions and your calendar can help you focus on the things and people that matter most.
Let’s Go Someplace Quiet
A project documenting the remotest spots in all 50 states highlights the effects of development on the environment and human health.
Creating Calm: Tamara Levitt
App content producer Tamara Levitt is helping millions of people learn to find balance and presence amid life’s chaos.
One Word: Plastics
Plastic is everywhere — even our guts. A recent study found nine different types of plastic in study participants.
How to Be a Minimalist: 7 Thoughts on Simplifying Your Life from Joshua Becker
Be more with less. Here are tips for minimalist living — downsizing your life, your possessions, and your schedule — from author and blogger Joshua Becker.
The Aesthetics of Joy
Ingrid Fetell Lee on design principles that spark positivity and help us to find moments joy of happiness.
Taking Charge: Eduardo Garcia
A near-death experience left Eduardo Garcia without a left hand, but it taught him the power of self-acceptance, curiosity, and community in healing — and in living life to its fullest.
Volunteer Vacations
Service trips benefit others — and they leave you with a rewarding experience.
Taste of the Nation: A Q&A With Edward Lee
Chef and restaurateur Edward Lee leaves his kitchen to explore the delicious world of America’s immigrant cuisines.
Live to Eat: Michelle Tam
Nom Nom Paleo author Michelle Tam serves up some of her favorite tips for cooking easy, nutritious, tasty meals — regardless of your dietary preferences.
How to Use a Foam Roller for Your Upper Back
Foam rolling your upper body muscles can be tricky. Our expert’s guidance and foam-roller exercises will help you make the right moves and target back pain.
Running for a Reason: Clare Gallagher
Embracing the process of running made Clare Gallagher an elite ultramarathoner — and a committed environmentalist.
The Happiness Curve
Feeling gloomy in your middle years? Award-winning journalist Jonathan Rauch tells us why life gets better after 50.
Charting a New Course: Scott Harrison
Here’s what inspired Scott Harrison to bring clean drinking water to millions of people worldwide.
Why Bears Ears National Monument Matters
Our staff writer explores the natural and cultural wonders of Bears Ears National Monument and the political tensions surrounding them.
How Childhood Adversity Creates Toxic Stress
Pioneering pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris is transforming how public-health advocates respond to the toxic stress created by childhood adversity. Here, she shares her prescription for healing.
How Insomnia Leads to Weight Gain
Chronic stress that keeps you up at night can increase the production of fat cells.
Keeping It Simple: Sarah Wilson
Author and minimalist Sarah Wilson shares how simplicity makes life sweeter and change easier.
7 Ways to Become Trustworthy
Trust is something you earn. These behaviors can increase your trustworthiness.
This Messy Magnificent Life
New York Times best-selling author Geneen Roth offers touchstones for living messily and magnificently.
Low-Fat Dairy Myth Debunked — Again
A recent study suggests that consuming whole-fat dairy products might lower the risk of cardiovascular disease.