Tips for Balancing a Full-Time Job and Pet Ownership
You’re working like a dog. But how is your work schedule working out for your faithful friend?
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How to Shift from a Judger to a Learner Mindset
The questions we ask can lead us down paths of discovery and delight, or down corridors of doom and gloom. Unlock the power of questioning with Marilee Adams’ transformative tool, the Choice Map, and decide which path will you choose.
Coming to Terms With Reality
Are you being held hostage by your negative thoughts? Byron Katie and “The Work” will help you discover how to negotiate a truce.
How to Harness Your Personal Power
Explorations on the true nature of personal power: Where it comes from, how it works, and how to wield it well.
Family Time: How to Find It, How to Make It
There’s nothing more satisfying than spending time with the ones you love best. So why is it so hard to pull off?
Overcome Unidentified Fitness Obstacles (UFOs) for Lasting Health and Happiness
Are Unidentified Fitness Obstacles sabotaging your fitness goals?
High Anxiety: A Guide to Understanding and Easing Symptoms
Some 40 million Americans regularly suffer from troubling levels of anxiety. Find out what triggers these episodes, how our bodies respond, and how you can remain calmer in the face of whatever life throws your way.
The Benefits of Moderate Sun Exposure for a Healthy Body and Mind
We know that excessive sun exposure is unhealthy, but there’s increasing evidence that blocking out all the sun’s rays can be equally dangerous. Find out why many health experts now see moderate sun exposure as essential to maintaining a healthy body and mind.
More Than One Way Out of Depression
Looking for a way out of depression? Antidepressant drugs are not your only option. And the relief offered by natural alternatives just might surprise you.
Weight Loss 101
Feel like you’re failing at weight loss? Forever stuck in the remedial class? Don’t despair! Here’s the study guide you need to make the weight-loss honor roll once and for all.
Strategies for Managing Your Stress Response
Are you revving too high, running on fumes and sputtering at stops? Get yourself into the fix-it shop for diagnostics and a 10-point tune-up.
No Show, No Glow
It’s only by showing up fully for what’s going on in our lives right here and now — and for the choices and commitments that we’ve decided are important to us — that we get to collect on the glowy, energizing, feel-good satisfaction that makes life worthwhile.
What Do You Really Own?
A simple question from a passerby caused me to reconsider my assumptions about ownership – and redefine my relationship with Mother Earth.
First Things First
Life is full of tricky balancing acts, but there are some priorities that always deserve top billing.
Explore Your Options
When I was about 12 years old, I saw the 1971 film Harold and Maude for the first time, and I, like many others, found myself changed by it.
Far From Perfect
One of the great joys of editing this magazine is striving (albeit sometimes clutzily) to walk its wonderful talk.
Finding Things Right
I used to have this ugly little habit – something I now refer to as looking for trouble.
What Matters Now
If we’re willing to lift our heads enough to see beyond the daily global-recession headlines, then I would argue that the future is bright indeed.
A Gratitude Exercise for Positive Emotions
Enhance joy with gratitude. Write and share a heartfelt letter. Discover how.
Body of Evidence
A body that’s getting what it needs can bounce back from early damage and become even better than it was in its youth. But a body that’s not well taken care of tends to start showing and feeling its age early on.