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What’s Your Enneagram Fitness Personality?
Harness your personality’s basic instincts to build a sustainable, effective exercise routine you’ll love.
What Is Self-Care, Really?
“Self-care” is a term that gets tossed around a lot, but what is self-care, really? In this episode, Brie Vortherms, MA, LMFT, and Barbara Powell, MA, of Life Time Mind talk about it in a way that may be new to you — and explain why they think it should be rebranded as “performance recovery.” They share the 12 types of self-care and three categories of ways to integrate it into our lives so we can better support our health and well-being.
On Gratitude
As we start another new year, let’s make a new type of resolution: to express more thanks.
How to Ask for Help in Times of Need
We all need somebody to lean on, but it’s not always easy to ask for help when we need it. These expert insights offer ideas for overcoming resistance — and knowing what to say.
How Guided Imagery Can Boost Your Health — and Performance
Guided imagery can be a powerful support for health recovery, goal realization, and emotional healing. Here’s why.
The 4 Pillars of a Joyful Life
Two integrative-health experts offer tips on how to overcome depression and anxiety — and rediscover your joy.
Jonah Kest on the Power of Yoga
Jonah Kest shares insights on the power yoga has to support, nourish, and transform our lives.
ONE HEALTHY HABIT:
Practice Gratitude
This month’s One Healthy Habit challenge inspires a daily routine to express your appreciation — and boosts your well-being in the process.
How Awe Can Create a Greater Sense of Happiness
Psychologist Dacher Keltner on how awe can transform your life.
STRONG BODY, STRONG MIND: Identity Crisis
Experience Life‘s fitness editor talks about the benefits of adopting a fitness identity — and what happens when you lose it.
4 Strategies to Teach Empathy to Children
Use these tips to help instill empathy early on.
PUMPING IRONY: In Hock and Unhealthy
A growing proportion of U.S. seniors are struggling with too much debt, and a recent study suggests that it’s making them sick.
Merry and Mindful: How to Navigate the Holidays — Stressors and All
A Q&A with a Life Time MindCoach on handling the seasonal challenges that arise, reducing stress, and coping with loss and grief.
8 Ways to Rediscover Empathy
Our ability to feel compassion for others helps us survive and thrive. Learn how to feel empathy without burning out.
Finding Motivation
Ideas for tapping into what inspires you — so you can keep moving toward your greatest ambitions.
A Meditation on Choosing to Love — Even When It’s Difficult
It’s not always easy to love the people around us or the tasks required of us, but mindfulness meditation can help us exercise affection even when it feels difficult.
5 Ways to Build Community
Belonging, author Radha Agrawal believes, is a basic human need, like food, water, and shelter. Explore five ways to find and build yours.
What Is an “Energetic Boundary”?
If you have ever entered a room and picked up that something wasn’t quite right, that’s your energetic boundary at work.
4 Ways to Bring More Joy to Your Workouts
Kelly McGonigal, PhD, shares her tips to find more enjoyment when exercising.
3 Ways to Create Better Boundaries
The following strategies can help create strong, clear boundaries.
How Can I Calm My Fear of Flying?
Discover natural solutions to help alleviate this common stress response.