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What Is Bystander Intervention?
This expert advice on bystander intervention can help you learn to identify and interrupt harassment in your community.
Reflect, Assess, Adjust
How a simply daily discipline can help you give your life a makeover.
How to Have More Honest Conversations With Your Friends
The surprising ways that honest, authentic dialogue can deepen your friendships.
The Joy of Eating
Small, satisfying food moments can bring big, valuable pleasure to our lives.
The 6 Best Gifts You Can Give Your Partner
The most valuable presents don’t come from the store. They come from the heart and are offered as a reflection of the care and appreciation you feel for your partner.
Self-Reflections: Justin Baldoni
Actor, director, and author Justin Baldoni on showing up as your vulnerable, strong, and authentic self.
How Using Your Senses Can Improve Your Mental Health
Smell, touch, and sound can help cultivate resilience. Here’s how.
The Sixth Stage of Grief
How finding meaning in loss can help you heal.
Gender-Identity Terminology
10 terms to know when it comes to gender identity, including “genderqueer,” “assigned gender,” and “gender confirmation.”
How Exercise Can Give You a Sense of Purpose — and Vice-Versa
A recent study explores the reciprocal relationship between exercise and purpose.
Habit Help for the Holiday Season
A four-step plan for solidifying healthy behaviors despite the obstacles of this time of year.
A Life of Love
Julie Schwartz Gottman, PhD, has overcome tragedy, found purpose, and become wise in the ways of making love last.
Comfort and Joy at Home: 14 Holiday Décor Ideas
Decking out your living space for the holidays can either be exciting or overwhelming — and oftentimes a challenge if you’re more limited in square footage. These sensory tips can help bring the season into homes of all sizes.
Decode Your Partner’s Love Language
This Valentine’s Day, learn how to communicate more deeply with your better half by learning about the five love languages.
The Benefits of Group Therapy
Individual therapy sessions are great for mental-health support, but group therapy also offers a variety of unique advantages.
PUMPING IRONY: Medicate or Meditate?
While Alzheimer’s patients wait to see if Biogen’s new drug will someday prove effective — and affordable — researchers continue to make a case for the healing powers of meditation.
When the Hard Stuff Happens . . .
At one point or another in all our lives, we will all go through hard things. We typically can’t prepare for them and they can catch us off guard, and yet we often often judge ourselves for how we react or behave in those moments — and after. Nora McInerny, author, podcast creator, and public speaker, joins us in this episode to talk about how to cope during those times, the ways they shape and change us, and why we can never move on or go back, but we can move forward.
Raising the Bar: Katia Smirnov’s Success Story
When one woman began investigating ingredients in her food, she found preservatives, chemicals, and hormones she wasn’t expecting. Her decision to prioritize organic whole foods improved her mood, weight, and overall well-being.
Consider the Context
There are always opportunities to become aware, to adapt — and to find our own right balance of less and more.
How to Make Friends at Your Health Club
It can be a challenge to form friendships as an adult. Here are a few ideas for meeting and connecting with others who are also pursuing health goals.
The Liberation of Less: Christine Platt
For the author, advocate, and Afrominimalist, there’s more than one way to live a simpler life.