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How to Help a Friend Struggling With Depression
When someone near you is suffering, it can be challenging to maintain a bright outlook. Here’s how to rise above the emotional tide.
How to Help Children Handle the Stress of Coronavirus
Four experts weigh in on child and family behavior amid the global pandemic.
5 Ways to Stay Connected While Confined
Loneliness can present a real health threat — especially for the elderly — but everywhere you look, people are finding new ways to engage with one another.
How to Deal With Pandemic Burnout
A therapist who specializes in burnout offers tips for self-care during a crisis.
How to Live Through Uncertain Times
Strategies for reframing fear and enjoying life in the face of anxiety.
5 Ways to Enjoy a Spa Day at Home
Practice some much-needed self-care with these DIY tips and recipes that call for items you likely already have in your pantry.
How to Build Mental Resilience During Difficult Times
Jen Elmquist, MA, LMFT, director and co-creator of Life Time Mind, shares ways to protect your mind and body, as well as some simple mental exercises you can do if you feel overwhelmed with stress or worry.
31 Healthy Habits to Embrace While Social Distancing
Navigating change and building resiliency starts with healthy habits.
The Stress Response May Start In Your Bones
Why the flight-or-fight response is about more than adrenaline.
Sleeping During Stressful Times
Having trouble falling or staying asleep? Henry Emmons, MD, discusses the importance of sleep for our immune systems, fighting off infections and our mental health — and offers tips for getting more sleep during this stressful time.
12 Strategies for Self-Care While Social Distancing
Here are some tips for staying sane during the COVID-19 outbreak.
3 Key Factors for Optimal Health
Tips for improving your nutrition, fitness, and lifestyle habits in times of challenge.
“This is a really big challenge.
And we will get through it.”
A Q&A with integrative psychiatrist Henry Emmons, MD, on how to handle the stress of coronavirus.
8 Yoga Poses to Help You Unwind
Find calm with these eight relaxing bedtime — or anytime — moves.
How to Cope With the Stress of Coronavirus
The World Health Organization offers advice on dealing with the mental-health toll of the pandemic.
6 Tips for Buying Herbal Remedies
Start with single-herb formulations, beware the cheapest option, and four more tips for buying herbal remedies.
What Are the 5 Best Herbs for Anxiety?
Plant-based remedies to help ease your mind.
Adrenal Fatigue: Causes, Symptoms, and Solutions
Do you feel worn out, unmotivated, achy, tired, or depressed? This may help offer some answers.
Why Sleep and Stress Management Are Non-Negotiables
While many aspects of our health are interconnected, two in particular play a major role in how we feel and function: sleep and stress. In this episode, integrative psychiatrist Henry Emmons, MD shares why they’re essential and offers tips for managing both.
How Massage Can Heal the Body and Mind
Think of massage as an indulgence? Perhaps. But it can also be a powerful tool for health and well-being — from easing pain and inflammation to soothing stress and anxiety.
Fending Off Adrenal Fatigue
Are you exhausted for days following your workouts? Or are you just too tired to make it to the gym? If so, you may be suffering from adrenal fatigue.