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Beyond Meditation
Sitting in silence isn’t for everyone. But there are plenty of other practices that offer profound calming benefits.
Creating Calm: Tamara Levitt
App content producer Tamara Levitt is helping millions of people learn to find balance and presence amid life’s chaos.
How Can I Work Through the Grief of Losing My Pet?
Here are four tips to help you cope with the loss of a beloved pet.
How to Practice Gratitude
What does appreciation really mean, and why is there so little of it to go around these days? Discover how you can put gratitude into action.
How to Overcome Shame
Don’t let shame limit your life or hinder your potential. Renowned shame researcher, Brené Brown, PhD, along with other experts, offer guidance on how to effectively respond to and overcome the effects of it.
The Aesthetics of Joy
Ingrid Fetell Lee on design principles that spark positivity and help us to find moments joy of happiness.
How Stress Affects Your Body
Understand how stress operates in your body — and how to reduce stress and build resilience.
Do GABA Supplements Help With Anxiety?
Many people believe GABA may help with anxiety, but the data is limited.
Why Do I Feel Worse About Myself When I Read Self-Help Books?
Sometimes, self-help books can overwhelm and set you up for unhappiness. Here’s why.
How to Deal With Traumatic Memories
Here is one expert’s four-step process for coping with trauma.
7 Self-Care Strategies at Work
Here are self-care strategies for coping with the always-on workplace.
The Happiness Curve
Feeling gloomy in your middle years? Award-winning journalist Jonathan Rauch tells us why life gets better after 50.
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.
6 Tips to Beat the Winter Blues
Seasonal affective disorder can make a stressful time of year even harder. Here’s how to offset the symptoms of SAD.
Exercise Now, Avoid Depression Later
Why midlife fitness may reduce the risks of depression later in life.
How to Overcome “The Wanting Mind” and Find True Happiness
Whether we’re yearning for another cup of coffee or a better job, we spend a lot of time and energy just wanting. Here’s how to observe — and calm — the endless tide of want that can catch us in its undertow.
How to Find Lasting Satisfaction and Fulfillment
How is it we can have it all and still feel unsatisfied with our lives? Find out how to use your longing to create lasting success.
Designing Happiness
Best-selling author Dan Buettner shares insights from the world’s happiest people that can boost the well-being of communities and their citizens.
The Loneliness Trap
Feeling cut off from others can do more than make you sad – it can even make you sick.
5 Ways to Practice Happiness
When it comes to the quest for greater happiness, waiting and hoping are out. Learning and practicing are in. Here’s how to create your own happy reality — starting now.
Strategies for Managing Your Stress Response
Are you revving too high, running on fumes and sputtering at stops? Get yourself into the fix-it shop for diagnostics and a 10-point tune-up.