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PUMPING IRONY: The Postmortem Muddle
While the Federal Trade Commission works to tighten regulations on the funeral industry, which often uses obscure pricing policies to prey on grief-stricken mourners, seniors like me need to start thinking more seriously about how we want to be laid to rest.
5 Adventures to Take With Your Dog
Looking for adventurous inspiration? Your pup’s ready to show the way.
How to Cope With a Toxic Friend
Maintaining healthy social ties is crucial to our well-being, but some relationships may not be giving you the best energy.
Why ARORA?
With Renée Main
Becoming a grandparent, caring for aging parents, getting unfavorable health news, not moving the ways you used to — there are several points in our lives, especially when we get older, when age becomes a front-of-mind topic. To support older adults who want to be healthy and fit as they age, Life Time created the ARORA program. The co-founder, Renée Main, joins us in this mini episode to talk about its genesis and all that it offers to members.
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How to Help Kids Thrive Through Physical Activity
Our children face many fitness challenges, including sports specialization, gender issues, excess screen time, and more. Discover how to help kids find meaning, health, and joy through physical activity.
Why Dance?
With Jeimy Bueno Prisby
Dance is more than a physically beneficial form of fitness: It evokes happiness, mental relief, and social connection. In this mini episode, Jeimy Bueno Prisby explains why you don’t need to be a “dancer” to enjoy the advantages of moving your body.
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Why Self-Compassion is a Learnable Skill — and One We ALL Need
With Kristin Neff, PhD
Self-compassion is a powerful tool for improving our own well-being and our relationships — yet cultural blocks often dissuade us from practicing this skill. In this episode, Kristin Neff, PhD, shares what self-compassion is, the strong, positive ways it can affect us (and others), and how we can start cultivating more of it in our daily lives.
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Active, Healthy, Social: 5 Benefits of ARORA
A few Life Time members share what they love about the latest programming for active, older adults and how they participate in this growing community.
Finding My Groove Again
How a resurfaced workout playlist sparked this Life Time team member to find fitness — and joy in it — once again.
Stories of Pride: Four LGBTQ+ Team Members Share What the Month of June Means to Them
These four Life Time team members share how uplifting, celebrating, and supporting the LGBTQ+ community is vital to our health — and goes well beyond Pride Month every June.
4 Ways to Be a Good Friend
To have good friends, you must be a good friend. The following telltale signs are adapted from Andrea Bonior’s The Friendship Fix.
Coping With Ambiguous Loss
How do we find closure when we're not even sure the door has closed?
Making Friends as an Adult
How to get past the awkwardness of reaching out to new people.
How to Get Your Kids in the Kitchen
It’s never too early — or too late — to introduce your kids to the life skills learned in the kitchen.
PUMPING IRONY: A Formula for Frailty
An outing with an elderly friend seems to corroborate recent research weighing the impact of social isolation on the physical fitness of seniors.
PUMPING IRONY: Home Healthcare Shakeup: Palliative or Predatory?
Health-insurance conglomerates are gobbling up home-healthcare companies, despite the industry’s inability to attract and retain workers. Early signs suggest that few of the benefits of these mergers will accrue to caregivers and their elderly clients.
The Power of Community Gardens
Community gardens offer a wide array of benefits: beautifying the landscape, fighting food insecurity, helping people come together, and more.
How to Meet a Workout Partner — and Be a Better One Yourself
The benefits of finding your fitness community, how to meet friends to exercise with, and tips for being a supportive workout partner.
How to Build Romance Through Gratitude
Genuine appreciation can increase intimacy in your relationship. Here's how.
How to Navigate a Strained Relationship
Our differences don't have to keep us polarized. Try this expert advice for forging unexpected connections.
What to Say When You Don’t Know What to Say
The first step is listening with empathy and openness.