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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 Ways to Tell That You’re Not Living Your Highest Purpose in Life and What To Do About It
7 ways to tell if you’re not currently living your highest purpose in life.
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.
How Stepping Out of the Ordinary Can Transform Your Life
If doing new things makes us feel good, why do we resist doing them? Here are practical ways to get past our fear of the unknown and make each day an adventure.
Wherever You Go, There You Are
This classic book from mindfulness pioneer Jon Kabat-Zinn brings meditation down to earth.
Tame Your Inner Critic
Reprogram your brain to see all that’s good in your life and the world around you.
Be a Bargainista
Kris Carr’s 12 tips on thrifty grocery shopping for healthy food.
Break Free from Performance Identity and Embrace Leisure for Personal Fulfillment
Are you measuring your worth by what you get done? Here’s why it’s time to give your productivity-seeking a rest, and go in search of some fun instead.