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How to Use Technology Intentionally and Avoid Using it to Escape Your Emotions
Technology has reshaped the way we process our feelings. This expert advice can help us navigate the digital emotional landscape more smoothly.
Cullen Jones’s Success Story
A near-death drowning experience inspired this Olympic gold medalist to boost representation and help others learn to swim.
How to Develop a ‘Stretch’ Mindset
Working with what you have can be the key to more sustainable success. Adopting a “stretch” mindset can help.
Moving With Ease
Our fitness editor talks about the fine line between working hard and working against yourself.
Building Mental Resilience: 4 Solution-Focused Exercises
Learn how to focus on solutions rather than problems in Part Three of this three-part series.
Building Mental Resilience: 5 Thought-Shifting Exercises
Learn how to control your inner conversation and maintain a steady mental state in Part Two of this three-part series.
Cultivating Ikigai: A Tool for a Happy, Fulfilled Life
“Ikigai” is defined as a reason for living — and it’s a tool Jeanne Rosner, MD, uses in her own life to nurture a greater sense of purpose. In this episode, she talks about this Japanese concept and how it can help us live longer, more satisfying lives. Plus, she offers guidance for finding our personal ikigai and suggestions for easy ways to cultivate it in our daily lives.
The 10 Principles of Intuitive Eating
Expert advice from two renowned nutritionists for building a healthy body image and making peace with food.
Where Did Summer Go?
Few of us get the long, glorious summer breaks that we enjoyed as kids. Here’s how to recapture some of the season’s lost magic — despite your schedule.
Making Peace With My Body
Through ongoing therapy and joyful movement, Casey Urban shares her journey of self-love and body acceptance after an eating disorder.
How to Be an Ally to the Asian American and Pacific Islander Communities
May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month. Learn what you can do to support, uplift, and celebrate the contributions of the AAPI community every day.
Building Mental Resilience: 6 Mind-Body Grounding Exercises
Learn how to reduce your body’s stress response in Part One of this three-part series.
Are Expiration Labels on Food Accurate?
What do “Sell By,” “Use By,” and “Best Before” labels actually mean? We break it down.
How to Find the Right Therapist
Credentials, cost, and length of treatment are just a few factors to consider when finding a therapist.
Opening Up to Vulnerability
The ability to be vulnerable — and show up as our real, authentic selves — is central to our well-being. Barbara Powell, MA, MindCoach with Life Time Mind, dives into the power of this raw emotion and debunks the myths surrounding it, including how it’s connected to our other emotions and why it’s OK if it doesn’t feel entirely comfortable to us.
How to Handle Friendship Conflict
One of the first steps? Realizing that conflict is normal.
Inspired to Move
Movement can take many shapes and forms outside of structured workouts. Kaisa Keranen, CPT — AKA KaisaFit — flips the script on common perceptions of fitness, including explaining the power and benefit that comes from moving our bodies often and in ways that feel good and bring us joy.
A Wellness Talk With Desmond Howard
A Life Time team member shares highlights from his conversation with the NFL veteran and Heisman Trophy winner.
A Mindful View of Motivation
How to get yourself going without beating yourself up.
STRONG BODY, STRONG MIND: Throwing It Back
Our fitness editor reminisces about the VHS tapes that introduced her to at-home fitness.
Bringing in Joy
Ingrid Fetell Lee, designer, blogger, and author, joins us to talk about joy: what it means to seek joy, how it relates to our other emotions, and ways to make joy more tangible and real so we can bring more of it into our daily lives and physical spaces.