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The Health Benefits of Volunteering
How volunteer work can improve your physical and emotional well-being.
Can School Lunch Be Saved?
What kids eat at school can influence their eating habits for a lifetime. Here’s how a growing movement is working hard to create healthier school-lunch programs across the country.
The Value of Intergenerational Relationships
Becoming pals with someone outside your age group can offer rich rewards.
The Art of Conversation
Here’s how to start a conversation with someone you don’t know, as well as conversational killers, body language signs to watch, and how to be a better listener.
How to Fight Fair in a Relationship
Psychologist Richard Nicastro on how to avoid low blows and cheap shots and prevent unfair arguments.
5 Strategies to Get Your Sex Drive Back
A healthy libido is about more than desire. It’s about experiencing pleasure that’s essential to our minds, bodies and spirits. And in the face of stress, it often goes into hiding. Here, expert Marcelle Pick offers tips on how to rediscover your desire.
5 Ways to Get Fit as a Family
Learn how to engage your children and get involved with their fitness.
End Bickering and Improve Your Relationship With These Strategies
Do you find yourself endlessly bickering with your partner about an issue that just won’t go away? Therapist and author Linda Carroll, MS, explains how to break out of the battle.
How Letting Go of Bitterness Can Improve Your Health and Well-Being
Negative emotions may suppress the immune system and increase vulnerability to disease.
The Unseen Risks of Secondhand Smoke and Kids
Being exposed to smoke-filled environments can affect children’s future smoking habits.
How to Find Recreational Companionship With Your Partner
Sharing downtime with the one you love brings you closer together. But digging totally different activities can drive you apart. Here’s how to handle the stress of clashing leisure styles.
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!
Goodbye, Mother Guilt: The Secret to Staying Committed Is Letting Go
Laurie Lethert Kocanda on overcoming mother guilt.
How a Long Commute Can Strain Your Relationship
Your long commute could be affecting your relationship.
9 Surprising Ways Dogs Improve Your Health
In addition to being cute, pets improve our lives.
Horse Sense: Lisa Arie
Lisa Arie shares the instinctive wisdom that brought her to a more centered place.
Strategies for Cultivating a Healthier Mindset With Work-Life Balance
If job-related thoughts dominate most of your waking hours and energy, it may be time to rearrange your priorities and give the other aspects of your life some room to grow.
Post-Pregnancy Pelvic-Floor Workout (Video)
These basic exercises will help get your post-pregnancy body back to its pre-pregnancy strength.
The Good Life: Bert Jacobs
By remaining true to their optimistic natures, Bert Jacobs and his brother parlayed three little words into a multimillion-dollar, do-gooder business.
Sole Provider: Blake Mycoskie
Blake Mycoskie is helping children in need around the world – one pair of TOMS Shoes at a time.
How Social Connections Influence Your Health and Habits
You’ve heard by now that you can “catch” obesity from your friends, family — even distant acquaintances. But you may have missed the flip side of that story: Good health and fitness are catching, too.