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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.
9 Missing Links to Weight Loss
These often-overlooked factors can help you achieve — and sustain — a healthy weight.
Stuck With a Chronic Complainer? Here’s How to Stay Positive
How to cope with the stress of being subjected to the negativity of a chronic complainer.
A 6-Week Meditation Guide For People Who Can’t Sit Still
Think you would benefit from a meditation practice but hate to sit still? Try this new approach.
Trying to Unwind? Try These 2 Breathing Exercises
Activate your calming system by learning belly breathing and the 4-7-8 breath.
How Stress Affects Your Libido
Tension, exhaustion, and worry are the ultimate libido killers. A renowned sex educator offers tips on how to restore intimacy.
The Loneliness Trap
Feeling cut off from others can do more than make you sad – it can even make you sick.
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.
Tips and Tricks to Deal With Common Pet Peeves
Discover how to overcome pet peeves and manage everyday irritations with expert tips. Learn to defuse anger, find perspective, and practice mindfulness for a calmer, more balanced life.
The Roots of Anxiety: A Case Study
How detoxing helped one woman overcome her anxiety.
What Is Halotherapy?
Halotherapy has been used for centuries around the world. Its healing benefits have sparked a new interest in salt pools, flotation tanks, and caves in the United States.
When “You’ve Changed” Feels Like Criticism – Coping With Unsupportive People
You’d like your loved ones to be happy and supportive about your positive life transformations. But what if they’re not?
5 Tips to Stay Cool Under Pressure
These simple strategies can help steady your nerves when the heat is on.
Self-Massage Dos and Don’ts
This expert advice can help you get the most out of self-massage.
A Beginner’s Guide to Meditation
Whether you’re at home or the office, whether you have five minutes or 20, you can meditate. Really. Here’s a beginner’s guide.
Be Your Own Massage Therapist
Learn how to become your own bodyworker with these expert tips on trigger-point therapy and self-myofascial release.
5 Ways to Eat to Manage Anxiety
Expert tips on what to eat to help ease anxiety.
How to Make the Most of a Long Commute
Our health and happiness can suffer when getting to work takes a big chunk of time and energy. These tips can help you relax and enjoy the trip.
Anti-Anxiety Eating
These four nutritional strategies can help support a calmer state of mind.




















