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The 3 Instincts From the Enneagram
Increase your self-awareness and improve your relationships by getting to know your personality’s basic instincts.
The Willpower Instinct
A celebrated Stanford psychologist, Kelly McGonigal, PhD, shares her cutting-edge strategies for improving self-control.
How to Break Out of a Rut
Some routines are helpful — others hold you back. Shake things up with a new design so you can move in a healthier direction.
Why Taking Time Off is Essential for Your Health and Happiness
Think time off is a waste of time? For the sake of your health and happiness, you just might want to reconsider.
Why Face-to-Face Connections Matter to Your Health
When our social lives unfold largely in the digital realm, it can damage our relationships and health in surprising ways. Discover why face-to-face connections count.
5 Ways to Live More Fearlessly
Wise advice from a master life coach to help you overcome angst and reach your full potential.
Designing Your Future Self
You’re the best person to create big changes in your life. But those shifts will happen only if your “future self” is on board.
Top Tips From Danielle LaPorte (Video)
Danielle LaPorte, author of The Desire Map, shares three ways she stays healthy and approaches goal setting.
Behind the Scenes With Danielle LaPorte (Video)
Go behind the scenes at our cover shoot with Danielle LaPorte as she shares how following your core desired feelings can guide you to greater happiness and success.
Global Sister: Nisha Moodley
The motivational speaker and blogger shares her thoughts on how we can tap into our internal compass, and how she’s empowering women through Global Sisterhood Day.
Practice, Not Perfection
Focus on the process, rather than your goals, to create a more satisfying life.
What Is Behavior Design?: Understanding How Our Environment Shapes Our Behavior
Does your living environment support — or sabotage — your self-improvement efforts?
When Fear Keeps You Home
Strategies for enjoying life in an uncertain world.
Excessive Social-Media Use Linked to Depression in Young Adults
New study suggests heavy users are nearly three times more likely to be depressed.
How to Overcome ‘Never Good Enough’ Thinking
Are you ‘never good enough’? Explore this 6 strategies for self-acceptance.
How to Live Fully in the Present Moment
Annoyed or upset by little things? Maybe your emotions are being triggered by past experiences. Learn how to live – and move beyond the patterns that no longer serve you.
Cultivate Self-Compassion
Kristin Neff’s life-changing strategies can help you be kinder to yourself.
Your Email May Be Bad for Your Health
New research shows how managing the daily flood of messages can create unwanted stress and harm your health.
Beating Addictions, Mindfully
A new clinical trial reveals that mindful meditation may help you kick your smoking habit — for good.
Improve Your Health and Relationships With the TalkRx Method
Learn how to transform conversations into healing connections.
Raising the Bar on Life After Loss: Q&A With Christina Rasmussen
Grief counselor and best-selling author of Second Firsts: Live, Laugh, and Love Again, Christina Rasmussen shares her advice on how to rebuild a life after loss — and opens up about her own experience with grief and healing.