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No Boundaries: Overcoming Codependence
What you can do to break codependency and cultivate healthier, more satisfying relationships.
4 Ways to Find a Hobby
Try these tips for finding a pastime that’s right for you.
THE LIVING EXPERIMENT: Satisfaction vs. Success
Are you chasing success at the expense of satisfaction? Here’s our take on balancing ambition, well-being, and life’s simple pleasures.
How to Make Time for Fitness
Our fitness editor describes how she learned to carve out time for exercise in her hectic schedule.
7 Self-Care Strategies at Work
Here are self-care strategies for coping with the always-on workplace.
Compassionate Communication
When we pay attention to the words we use and the way we use them, we improve the odds of strengthening and deepening our most meaningful relationships.
The Happiness Curve
Feeling gloomy in your middle years? Award-winning journalist Jonathan Rauch tells us why life gets better after 50.
How Childhood Adversity Creates Toxic Stress
Pioneering pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris is transforming how public-health advocates respond to the toxic stress created by childhood adversity. Here, she shares her prescription for healing.
Survival Skills for Highly Sensitive People
Are you among the 20 percent of Americans who are highly sensitive? Here are some self-care strategies for you.
STRONG BODY, STRONG MIND: Remember Who You’re Here For
Our fitness editor talks about finding deeper meaning — and personal connection — in workouts.
The Living Experiment: The New Year
The start of the year brings a barrage of “New You!” promises. Learn how to get past those tired tropes and explore fresh options for conscious change.
Mindful Healing: Q&A With Yoga Instructor and Meditation Coach Keith Mitchell
Changing his mindset — and his career — through yoga has helped the Light It Up Foundation cofounder discover a new path forward.
8 Ways to Simplify the Holidays
The joy of the season really does come from the little moments. Here are a few ideas to make it memorable — and less stressful.
How to Embrace Your Innate Creativity
The world needs more creative people — including you.
7 Ways to Become Trustworthy
Trust is something you earn. These behaviors can increase your trustworthiness.
6 Tips to Beat the Winter Blues
Seasonal affective disorder can make a stressful time of year even harder. Here’s how to offset the symptoms of SAD.
The Living Experiment: Conscious Language
The words you speak both reflect and shape your reality. All the more reason to say what you mean — and mean what you say.
Karen Kitchel’s Success Story
How one woman is finding purpose and fulfillment in her retirement through volunteering in her community.
15 Ways to Outsmart Your Smartphone
Here are tips to avoid being sucked into digital life — and to embrace real life.
This Messy Magnificent Life
New York Times best-selling author Geneen Roth offers touchstones for living messily and magnificently.
How to Eat Mindfully
Here are five tips to slow down and eat more mindfully.