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How to Train Your Brain to Enjoy Fitness
Starting a fitness routine isn’t easy — especially for busy moms. Developing the mental strength to get you moving has to be step number one before fitness can become a lifelong habit.
Achieve Your Goals With Question-Based Framing
Studies show that people are more motivated to achieve their goals when phrased in the form of a question.
How to Access Your Inner Wisdom
5 steps in a daily practice that will help you to tune in and establish a connection with your higher self.
How to Embrace Your Changing Body as You Become More Fit and Lose Weight
Your body is changing for the better. But is your brain on board? A cognitive psychologist explains how to be on the lookout for the unconscious “mental frames” that can bring your progress to a halt.
The Surprising Health Benefits of Volunteering
There are plenty of fine reasons to volunteer. Do it for charity, for community – or just for the health of it!
How Expressive Writing Can Help Overcome Test Anxiety
A recent study suggests that spending a few minutes putting your worries on paper before a test or presentation can measurably improve results.
Lessons From a Life Coach
Looking to make some positive changes in your life? Certified professional life coach Kate Larsen shows you how. Apply her four-step system to your personal and career goals — and prepare to discover some interesting things about yourself in the process.
Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals
A leading expert on the art of achieving goals shares her best insider tips for success.
Free Spirit: Gabrielle Bernstein
How Gabrielle Bernstein transformed herself from party girl to meditation guide, motivational speaker and author.
Reflecting on Wisdom: Advice from Our Future Selves
Maryanne O’Brien’s exercise helps provide 20/20 hindsight we often wish we had (and quite often do).
7 Signs You’re Off Your Life’s Path and How to Get Back On
Feeling stuck, unfulfilled, and drained at work? Discover more signs that you’re not living your highest purpose in life and discover seven tips to find fulfillment.
How to Drink Mindfully
What’s the right role for alcohol in your life? Experts offer suggestions for creating a healthier, more conscious relationship to imbibing.
The Creative Habit
Twyla Tharp, one of the world’s most prolific and innovative choreographers, offers wisdom on cultivating and sharing your own creative gifts.
Strategies to Bring Your Dream Alive
You know that creative project you never have time for? The one that really expresses who you are? Here’s how to make it a priority.
Healthy Progress
Before you set healthy goals, stop and appreciate what you’ve already accomplished. A quick look back may be the best tool for evaluating what comes next.
How to Flourish in Life
Martin Seligman, one of positive psychology’s founding fathers, offers a new picture of the good life, and explains how each of us can cultivate it.
Ready, Set, Glow: Latham Thomas
If you haven’t yet heard about Latham Thomas, get ready. Dr. Oz describes her as a “fitness and nutrition powerhouse,” but that only begins to describe the scope of her efforts and accomplishments.
The Stress of Just Scraping By
Do you find yourself living paycheck to paycheck—no matter how much money you make? Here’s how to get ahead of the game, and stay there.
Seeing Beings, Not Bodies: How to Embrace Humanity in Every Encounter
Untraining the mind, seeing the person and not their label.
Redefining the Word "Athlete"
Before becoming a parent, I thought I knew exactly what it meant to be an athlete. Being an athlete meant pushing myself to the limit — racing for a personal best, an age group win, or to outkick my nemesis at the finish line.