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An Honest Talk About Mental Health
With Dr. Mondo
Anxiety, depression, limited self-beliefs, perpetual feeling states — we all experience mental-health struggles, and what we often don’t realize is the effect they can have on every area of our health and wellness. Dr. Mondo joins us for an honest talk about mental well-being, including the role trauma plays and the power that comes from healing.
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NATURAL MENTAL HEALTH: How Nature Supports Our Mental Health
Here's how nature supports our mind and mood — and how to get more of it.
Adolescents’ Most Common Mental-Health Issues
When is it depression, social anxiety, or substance abuse — and when is it normal "teen angst"?
How to Improve Vagal Tone
Getting a massage, chanting, breathing deeply, and taking a cold shower can all help stimulate your vagus nerve.
PUMPING IRONY: On Memory and Forgetting
Concerned about my septuagenarian friend’s sudden memory lapse, I was comforted by new research suggesting that a little forgetfulness may not be a bad thing.
Piece by Piece
Two years into the pandemic, Experience Life's editor in chief reflects on the importance of tending to one's mental health.
This is Your Vagus Nerve on Lockdown
Here’s how a lack of social interaction and fear of COVID contagion affects your vagus nerve.
From Status Quo to Flow: A 3-Minute Guided Visualization
Use this mental exercise to focus on areas of your life where you feel like you’re processing change or encountering challenge.
The Promise of Psychedelics in Mental-Health Care
Psychedelics such as psilocybin and MDMA have been used to treat everything from depression to PTSD to substance use.
In Her Own Lane: Nicole Phelps
Nicole Phelps has emerged as an influential mental-health advocate through lessons learned while supporting her husband, Olympian
Michael Phelps, through troubled times.
How Therapeutic Work — and Medication — Helped Gabrielle Bernstein Emerge from Trauma
In her new book, Happy Days: The Guided Path from Trauma to Profound Freedom and Inner Peace, spiritual teacher Gabrielle Bernstein talks about how medication, when prescribed as part of a larger program of recovery and therapy, can help establish a safe baseline from which to do the deeper work.
The State of Our Children’s Health
The pandemic has wreaked havoc on children's health. Here are some takeaways.
Health and Wellness Trends to Watch in 2022
Life Time experts share their predictions for what will be top of mind in the coming year.
How Super-Agers Avoid Dementia
Genes play a role, but so do lifestyle factors, according to a recent study of centenarians.
PUMPING IRONY: Healthy Housework
Recent research suggests that my regular efforts to tidy up the house may help my aging brain and body function more smoothly.
NATURAL MENTAL HEALTH: How Using Your Senses Can Improve Your Mental Health
Smell, touch, and sound can help cultivate resilience. Here's how.
Can Massage Help Ease Anxiety and Depression?
Stimulating the peripheral nerves with massage can switch the nervous system into rest-and-relaxation mode.
Rising Early May Reduce Depression Risk
Sleep timing may lower risk of major depression by as much as 23 percent, according to a recent study in JAMA Psychiatry.
The Benefits of Group Therapy
Individual therapy sessions are great for mental-health support, but group therapy also offers a variety of unique advantages.
When the Hard Stuff Happens . . .
With With Nora McInerny, Author, Podcast Creator, and Public Speaker
At one point or another in all our lives, we will all go through hard things. We typically can’t prepare for them and they can catch us off guard, and yet we often often judge ourselves for how we react or behave in those moments — and after. Nora McInerny, author, podcast creator, and public speaker, joins us in this episode to talk about how to cope during those times, the ways they shape and change us, and why we can never move on or go back, but we can move forward.
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Can Aducanumab Help Treat Alzheimer’s?
Many scientists and Alzheimer's researchers are not so sure.