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Does your living environment support — or sabotage — your self-improvement efforts?

Discover the impact of showering on your microbiome. Learn how often you should shower for optimal skin health and immune function.

Mercury in fish and dental fillings. Lead in old paint. Cadmium and arsenic in industrial wastes. There's a lot of talk about heavy-metal toxins these days. But how worried should you be, really? And what can you do to protect yourself?

A cluttered laundry-and-mud room becomes a functional, pleasant place to be.

Minimize the stress of paying bills by creating a simple system for household paperwork.

How to arrange your bathroom and linen closet so they support a more peaceful start to the day.

If you live in the United States, there’s more than a 90 percent chance that BPA is already in your bloodstream.

Tips for navigating the stress of relocating and feeling at home in a new place from psychologist and psychotherapist Elizabeth Stirling, PhD.

Mattresses, pillows, and other bedding can contain chemicals that, while intended to make sleep safer, actually have the opposite effect.

How to limit your exposure to toxins in your home and better balance the basic elements of air, fire, water, and earth.

A University of Washington study found air vented from dryers using scented products contain a mixture of some 25 harmful chemicals.

Research shows that there may be a link between dry-cleaning chemicals and mental illness.

The Environmental Working Group highlights products that contain toxic chemical flame retardants.

How too much blue light in LED light bulbs can affect sleep, mood and cancer-fighting abilities.

Tired of trying to make your home look magazine-slick? Discover the Japanese art of wabi-sabi or “appreciating the imperfect.”

Life coach Laurie Gerber has helped hundreds of clients overcome self-defeating behaviors and clean up their emotional lives, daily habits and relationships.

Feng-shui expert Andrea Gerasimo explains how to make your bedroom a restful sanctuary.