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How to Break Free From Fear
A shamanic healer explains how fear drains our vitality — and how we can reclaim more energy.
How to Ramp Up Your Energy
Is your body experiencing an energy shortage? Learn how your system creates and uses energy and you’ll have a better shot at ramping up production to meet demand.
How to Make Bath Salts
This simple and fragrant bath salts recipe can be modified endlessly to meet your mood.
7 Hidden Triggers of the Sympathetic Stress Response
Here are a few surprising ways we can be triggered without even knowing it.
How Percussive Therapy Can Benefit Your Health
Muscles tight or sore? Stressed? Having trouble sleeping? These devices have risen in popularity as an at-home tool to help provide relief for a variety of symptoms and grievances.
4 Beginner Ways to Use Your Percussive Device
Do you have or are you thinking about getting a Hyperice or other percussive therapy device? Here are four ways we suggest using it.
The Stress Alarm
Our biological stress response operates the same whether threats are real or perceived. Here’s how your system reacts.
5 Weight-Loss Tips That Have Nothing to Do With Food
A Life Time dietitian and trainer shares the five non-food habits that help drive her clients with a weight-loss goal to success.
4 Signs That You’re Stuck in Overdrive
Here are four signals that your body may be having trouble downshifting.
Post-Election Stress-Relief Yoga Workout
Feeling the weight of extra stress right now? Try this quick yoga designed to reduce mental stress and anxiety, as well as tension in your shoulders, neck, jaw, and hips.
A Time for Self-Care
With election day 2020 officially behind us, take some time to prioritize you in the days ahead.
How to Find Stillness
Frazzled? Scattered? A few moments of meditative silence can ground you in peace and calmness for the rest of the day.
3 Healthier Stress Responses
Use these techniques to consciously shift your body’s response to stress into a state that’s calm, secure, and replenished.
Reset Your Stress Response
Being on high alert for too long can put you into adrenal overdrive. Learn how to shift from fight-or-flight mode into calmer states that help your body recover.
How to Lower Your Political Stress Level
A constant barrage of political advertising and infighting can raise your anxiety level. Here’s how to calm down this election season.
The Need for Self-Care
Overcoming blockers to — and guilt around — self-care can be challenging, especially for women. But making time to care for yourself is vital for your health and well-being — and for your family, too.
9 Types of Emotional Triggers
Feeling discounted, vulnerable, and self-conscious are just three common categories of emotional triggers.
How Exercise Heals
Regular physical activity can help us recover more quickly, heal more easily, and get an edge over all kinds of disease and injury. In fact, exercise may just be nature’s best medicine.
When to Seek Help for Anxiety
If you’re struggling with anxiety and unsure whether to seek help or ride it out, consider the following factors.
18 Ways to Break Your Cellphone Habit
Feel like your smartphone is controlling your life? These strategies can help you set it down and reclaim control of your time.
How Anxiety Manifests + Tools For Managing It
Tingling fingers. A nervous stomach. Distractedness. Did you know these can all be signs of anxiety? In this episode, Life Time MindCoach Brie Vortherms, MA, LMFT, speaks to how our bodies react to anxiety and offers useful practices we can all use to feel better in those moments.