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5 Strategies for Coping With Sensory Overload
It’s not uncommon to be overwhelmed by all of the stimuli in your environment. These strategies can help you recognize and deal with this feeling.
How Do I Rest — Really? Understanding the 7 Types of Rest
Rest is essential to our health and wellness, yet it often gets pushed to the side in favor of other things that require our time and attention. Importantly, it’s not just physical rest we need: There are six other types that contribute to our overall well-being.
In this episode, Barbara Powell, MA, NBC-HWC, joins us to first explain the signs and symptoms of under-rest to watch for. She then delves into the seven versions of rest we need, and for each, the micro, macro, and habitual ways we can get more rest so we can perform better and live life more fully.
5 Skills for Authentic Communication
How to have deeper conversations.
The Promise of Permeability
How to soften your defenses so you can let feelings in — and out again.
How to Talk About Sex With Your Partner
Sex educators explain why talking about sex with our partners can be so challenging — and how to get more comfortable with it.
Why Inspiration Is the Engine of Joy
Explore the five traits of this emotion and insights for tapping into the transcendence and interconnectedness of it.
10 Strategies to Overcome Driving Anxiety
Worried about getting behind the wheel? Here’s expert advice on how to manage your fears by adjusting your expectations, your route, and your environment.
How to Find Calm When Life Feels Chaotic
Many of us respond to disarray by striving for control, but there are other ways to find calm within the storm.
How Curiosity Changes Your Mind
Henry Emmons, MD, and Aimee Prasek, PhD, explain how thinking creatively can help us create new neural pathways in the brain.
How Humans Are Wired for Compassion
Our brains are wired to care for others, even when it may seem like too much to ask.
How to Recognize and Satisfy ‘Heart Hunger’
People tend to associate hunger solely with physical nourishment, however, it is important to acknowledge what’s referred to as “heart hunger.” Learn more about how we can nourish this type of hunger.
Savoring: The Key to Forgotten Happiness
When we fully notice and appreciate something, we create a pathway to joy.
4 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Expressing a Strong Emotion
Practicing healthy emotional expression helps us to acknowledge our emotions without letting them control us. Use these questions to determine the most appropriate way to express your feelings in any situation.
How to Face Your Fears: 3 Expert Tips
Directly expressing our feelings of fear can help build trust and intimacy in relationships. Here are some strategies to face your fears.
How Can I Help My Child Understand and Manage Their Emotions?
Here are five steps to help teach emotional literacy to your kids.
How to Deal With Sadness and Grief: 4 Expert Tips
These strategies can help you cope when feelings of sadness arise.
How to Deal With Anger: 3 Expert Tips
Strategies to help stay in control when feelings of anger arise.
6 Difficult Emotions and How to Deal With Them
We often resist challenging emotions, like anger and sadness, but embracing and accepting them is a key step toward wholeness.
What to Do When Someone You’re Dating Ghosts You
Getting ghosted can be upsetting, even for the most resilient of people. Try these simple strategies to move on.
The 7 Roots of Resilience
Stay steady through hard times with these seven tips.
“Speak” Your Partner’s Love Language at Life Time
Ideas for expressing and receiving love that can all be done at your athletic country club.