Quality of Life Feature

Traveling is an inherent part of our human spirit, yet it can exert pressure on popular vacation destinations. Discover how you can make a positive impact on local economies while ensuring an enjoyable and fulfilling travel experience.

Why trading affirmation for acceptance can be freeing.

We often resist challenging emotions, like anger and sadness, but embracing and accepting them is a key step toward wholeness.

A three-step plan to streamline your digital life and reclaim time for what matters most to you.

Hybrid disorders of the brain, mind, and body once confounded physicians and researchers. Today experts are beginning to uncover the conditions’ complexities — and how to treat them.

Our ability to feel compassion for others helps us survive and thrive. Learn how to feel empathy without burning out.

A renowned trauma therapist and coach explains how to manage your energy without getting swamped by other people — or hardening against them.

Quitting alcohol may not be easy, but it doesn’t have to be hard forever.

Just as we all have a primary love language, we also have an apology language, and it can shape how we approach mending a rift.

Treating mild ailments with homeopathic medicine is becoming more mainstream in U.S. healthcare. Learn how it works, and how to make it part of your own healthcare toolkit.

Most of us have about 4,000 weeks to live — a fact we might rather ignore. But psychology journalist Oliver Burkeman believes that embracing this limitation can help us get more satisfaction out of life.

Learn more about the difference between food allergies, intolerances, and sensitivities, what might be behind their increasing prevalence, and what you can do about them.

Protecting ice caps and restoring the ocean floor are just a couple of the transformative climate projects that are bringing some hope for the future.

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing is a trauma treatment that often produces results when nothing else will. But what is it, and how does it work?

A “scout mindset” can help us cultivate curiosity, improve our reasoning, and make better decisions.

How finding meaning in loss can help you heal.

Fear of rejection can keep us from living life fully, but there are graceful ways to handle the sting.

Human Giver Syndrome makes women uniquely vulnerable to stress-related illnesses and burnout. Renowned health educator Emily Nagoski, PhD, offers strategies we can all use to relieve the tension.