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Overcoming Party-Hosting Anxiety
Opening your home to guests for the holidays? Here are a few expert tips to avoid hospitality-induced anxiety.
Holiday Overload
Are holiday obligations stressing you out? Here’s how to cope.
The Healing Power of Sound
Why certain rhythms, sounds, and vibrations can help us reduce stress, create a deep sense of well-being, and even promote healing.
The Morning Rush
Had enough of frenzied, crazy-making mornings? Here’s how to start your days more sanely—and enjoy energy-boosting benefits all day long.
How Movement Therapy Can Heal Traumatic Stress
Traumatic stress can be debilitating and terrifying. Movement therapy — involving increasingly accessible, thoughtful approaches to exercise — offers new hope.
9 Healing Herbs
Herbs were our first wonder drugs, and they remain powerful medicine to this day. Learn more about these health-promoting plants.
Do Women Experience More Stress Than Men?
The stress gap between men and women may be growing, according to recent research. Here are three ways to manage stress — for everyone.
How Stress Affects Your Body
Understand how stress operates in your body — and how to reduce stress and build resilience.
How to Find Your Pressure Points
Acupressure accesses the body’s subtle energy layers to let health and well-being flow.
Sabbatical Stories
Sabbaticals aren’t just for college professors anymore. Many workers are taking time off to pursue a creative project, build a skill, or simply expand their horizons.
10 Tips to Help Your Body Rest and Repair
Integrative medicine physician Aviva Romm’s replenish-repair kit helps bring your hormones into balance.
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.
6-Week Meditation Guide for Athletes
Think you would benefit from a meditation practice but hate to sit still? Try this new approach.
Trying to Unwind? Try These Two 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.
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.
Why Halotherapy Is Worth Its Salt
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.