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How to Deal With the Stress of Moving
Tips for navigating the stress of relocating and feeling at home in a new place from psychologist and psychotherapist Elizabeth Stirling, PhD.
Choose Safer Bedding and Avoid Harmful Chemicals For Healthier Sleep
Mattresses, pillows, and other bedding can contain chemicals that, while intended to make sleep safer, actually have the opposite effect.
4 Ways to Keep Toxins From Entering Your Home
We enjoy connecting with the earth through a landscaped yard or natural park. Once we track that earth inside, though, it’s a different story. Dirt, in this chemical age, is dirtier than many of us might want to know.
Detox Your Home
How to limit your exposure to toxins in your home and better balance the basic elements of air, fire, water, and earth.
The Hidden Health Hazards of Scented Laundry Products
A University of Washington study found air vented from dryers using scented products contain a mixture of some 25 harmful chemicals.
For Love and Money
Financial expert Ruth Hayden helps couples move beyond their money issues. In this first of two installments, she explains why we fight about finances — and how to find common ground.
How Dry Cleaning Affects Brain Health
Research shows that there may be a link between dry-cleaning chemicals and mental illness.
The Emotional Toll of Clutter
What is your space saying about you — and what is it doing to your energy, mood and outlook on life?
The Problem with Chemical Flame Retardants
The Environmental Working Group highlights products that contain toxic chemical flame retardants.
The Health Dangers of LED Lights
How too much blue light in LED light bulbs can affect sleep, mood and cancer-fighting abilities.
How to Embrace the Wabi-Sabi Style in Your Home
Tired of trying to make your home look magazine-slick? Discover the Japanese art of wabi-sabi or “appreciating the imperfect.”
Clutter Clearer: Laurie Gerber
Life coach Laurie Gerber has helped hundreds of clients overcome self-defeating behaviors and clean up their emotional lives, daily habits and relationships.
Order out of Chaos: Declutter the Bedroom
Feng-shui expert Andrea Gerasimo explains how to make your bedroom a restful sanctuary.
Natural Cleaning: 6 Homemade Cleaning Solutions for a Toxin-Free Home
Sara Snow shares 6 ways to detox your cleaning products.
Order Out of Chaos: The Car
Our decluttering expert shows one very busy fitness editor how to organize her ride.
Order Out of Chaos: The Closet
A feng-shui and decluttering expert explains the secrets of the well-organized closet.
The Tale of the Cluttered Closet
In the January/February 2011 issue, Experience Life published the first article in the popular “Order Out of Chaos” series
Even BPA-Free Plastic Has Health Risks
Some tips on how to avoid hormone-disrupting chemicals in your kitchen.
Order Out of Chaos: The Pantry
A kitchen cleared of clutter gives a working mother the space and inspiration to cook.
Order Out of Chaos: The Home Office
Low-cost improvements yield big returns in a cramped home-office space.