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How to Cook With Lentils: Recipes, Techniques, and More
These nutritious legumes are versatile, delicious and easy to prepare.
How to Cultivate an Open Mindset
Feeling hermetically sealed in your own opinions? Opening your mind to other viewpoints can deepen your personal wisdom and broaden your horizons.
How to Take a Sabbatical From Work
An extended break from work can improve your health, happiness – even your career performance. And it can be done.
What I Learned at the Spa
Today’s destination spas don’t just pamper your body. They expand your horizons – and change your life.
Balancing Act: Cheryl Richardson
Life coach and author Cheryl Richardson explains why taking care of business first requires taking care of you.
How to Change Your Perception of Stress and Use It to Your Advantage
Tired of feeling victimized by stress? Learn how to transform it into something manageable — an perhaps even make it your friend.
How to Strike a Balance Between Work and Life
Most of us know we work too much and rest too little. We long for balance. But with the pressures and pace of modern life always at our back, how do we step off this crazy merry-go-round? Here, we outline the top three barriers to achieving work-life balance — and offer practical wisdom for overcoming them.
Correcting Muscle Imbalances: 4 Exercises to Combat the Effects of Sitting All Day
Muscle imbalances caused by too much sitting, typing and monitor gazing can set up chronic problems throughout the body. Are work-related imbalances throwing your body out of whack?
Why the Warm-Up and Cool-Down are Essential to Your Workout
Are you skipping your warm-up or cool-down? You may be squandering fitness results and making your workouts harder than they have to be.
4 Tips to Bring Fun Back to Your Fitness Routine
Routines – even healthy ones – have a way of becoming, well, routine. Here’s how to put the fun back into your fitness experience.
Are You Overexercising? Find Your Just-Right Fitness Routine
When it comes to exercise, the more, the better . . . right? Not necessarily. Finding your own fitness sweet spot is a balancing act.
Far From Perfect
One of the great joys of editing this magazine is striving (albeit sometimes clutzily) to walk its wonderful talk.
Worthy Pursuit
When I heard we were focusing on life balance this month, I said: Great! I can talk about that for hours!