Kara Douglass Thom
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How to Adapt Your Morning Routine With the Seasons
Aligning your morning routine with the seasons can boost energy, support well-being, and keep you grounded. Try these ideas and feel the difference.
How to Build a Winter Morning Routine
Aligning your morning routine with the seasons can boost energy, support well-being, and keep you grounded. Try these ideas for the colder months and feel the difference.
What Are the Most Common Mental Health Issues During Middle Age?
Stress and other common issues in midlife can contribute to mental health issues. Learn more.
How to Build a Fall Morning Routine
Aligning your morning routine with the seasons can boost energy, support well-being, and keep you grounded. Try these ideas for the fall and feel the difference.
The Benefits of Equine-Assisted Therapies
Horse-human interactions are enhancing therapy for medical diagnoses, mental health, and more — and they’re helping us be better humans.
How Pickleball Helped a Woman Rebuild Her Life After a Stroke
Following a stroke at the age of 59, Elise Laedtke found a new sport and community through pickleball.
5 Tips to Be More Mindful With Your Tech
Use these tips and strategies to make your tech work for you.
4 Tips for Finding Mindfulness
It’s challenging to stay present in an age of multitasking and increasing distractions. Practice awareness with these ideas.
How to Stop Overfunctioning in a Relationship
If you tend to micromanage in certain relationships, it might be time to take a step back. Create more balance in your life with this advice.
7 Simple Ways to Improve Social Connection
Our screens often keep us from fully engaging with the people right in front of us. Discover several strategies to show that you’re present.
5 Ways to Build Community
Belonging, author Radha Agrawal believes, is a basic human need, like food, water, and shelter. Explore five ways to find and build yours.
How to Create a Sense of Belonging
Community is more than your immediate neighborhood. Find connection with those who share your values.
The Power of Community Gardens
Community gardens offer a wide array of benefits: beautifying the landscape, fighting food insecurity, helping people come together, and more.
What to Say When You Don’t Know What to Say
The first step is listening with empathy and openness.
How to Have More Honest Conversations With Your Friends
The surprising ways that honest, authentic dialogue can deepen your friendships.
How to Take a Race-Cation
Sports travel lets you combine your favorite fitness passion with the opportunity to explore new places.
The Benefits of Forest Bathing
A shinrin-yoku retreat provides opportunities to rebuild a healthy connection with nature and improve your well-being.
Avoiding the Fall Funk
I shouldn’t be surprised and yet every year I begin October thinking I’m going to be able to outwit the darkness.
How Busy Moms Can Prioritize Health and Turn Exercise Into a Habit
Starting a fitness routine isn’t easy — especially for busy moms. Developing the mental strength to get you moving has to be step number one before fitness can become a lifelong habit.