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How to Overcome Shame
Don’t let shame limit your life or hinder your potential. Renowned shame researcher, Brené Brown, PhD, along with other experts, offer guidance on how to effectively respond to and overcome the effects of it.
6 Tips for Keeping a Mindful Food Journal
If you track what’s on your plate as well as what’s happening in your mind and body, you can learn what doesn’t work for you — and build on what does.
Escape From Inertia: Strategies to Overcome Resistance to Start Exercising
Most of us struggle at some point to overcome a stubborn resistance to exercising. Here are some tips for getting — and keeping — your body in motion, even when you don’t feel like it.
THE LIVING EXPERIMENT: Satisfaction vs. Success
Are you chasing success at the expense of satisfaction? Here’s our take on balancing ambition, well-being, and life’s simple pleasures.
The Living Experiment: The New Year
The start of the year brings a barrage of “New You!” promises. Learn how to get past those tired tropes and explore fresh options for conscious change.
Manage Your Personal Energy for Better Productivity and Stress Relief
All the time in the world won’t help you achieve your goals if you’re too run down to pursue them. Here’s how to manage your energy— and your sanity.
Mindful Healing: Q&A With Yoga Instructor and Meditation Coach Keith Mitchell
Changing his mindset — and his career — through yoga has helped the Light It Up Foundation cofounder discover a new path forward.
How to Embrace Your Creativity
The world needs more creative people — including you.
6 Tips to Beat the Winter Blues
Seasonal affective disorder can make a stressful time of year even harder. Here’s how to offset the symptoms of SAD.
This Messy Magnificent Life
New York Times best-selling author Geneen Roth offers touchstones for living messily and magnificently.
How to Overcome “The Wanting Mind” and Find True Happiness
Whether we’re yearning for another cup of coffee or a better job, we spend a lot of time and energy just wanting. Here’s how to observe — and calm — the endless tide of want that can catch us in its undertow.
7 Tips to Awaken Your Inner Sherlock
Here are some tips to boost your curiosity — and create a healthier, happier you.
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.
7 Strategies for Navigating Big Life Changes
These tactics can help you manage the stress that even positive transitions can bring.
In Search of True Belonging
Best-selling author Brené Brown charts a course for regaining a spirit of connection and civility in a polarized world.
STRONG BODY, STRONG MIND: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Our fitness editor reflects on her favorite children’s book and what it can teach us about heeding our bodies’ intuition in the gym.
8 Ways to Channel Your Inner Child This Summer
Here are some tips to rediscover the joys of summer.
5 Ways to Practice Happiness
When it comes to the quest for greater happiness, waiting and hoping are out. Learning and practicing are in. Here’s how to create your own happy reality — starting now.
How a Change of Habit Can Transform Your Life
Our lives are in many ways defined by unconscious habits and ingrained behaviors. How much do you know about the structures that hold you together, and those that hold you down?
10 Tips for Your Best Fourth of July
Here are our top 10 tips for the ultimate July 4th celebration.
How to Reclaim Your Weekends
Setting aside time for restoration isn’t just good for your health — it just might help you be more productive and creative, too.