Healthy Living Articles

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• Overcoming Anxiety in Today’s Tough, Tuned-in, Plugged-in World
  Every era has its ups and downs — war, natural disasters, economic trouble, social problems and ...
• Transcendental Meditation: What Is It and How Does It Work?
  Being that my job is to feature and review books on psychology, spirituality, and especially the intersection ...
• Mindless Eating
  We make more than 200 food-related decisions per day. We are unaware of 90 percent of them. In Mindless Eating (2006), Brian Wansink, PhD takes an in-depth look at food psychology and how ...
• 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think
  Our society is obsessed with time -- or, more accurately, our lack thereof. Work takes up most of our time. (We regularly read that Americans work over 60 hours a week, and that's still considered ...
• Payback: An Interview with David Barash, Ph.D. and Judith Eve Lipton, M.D.
  Aggression occurs not only in humans, but in most other species. In fact, ...
• 6 Benefits of Roughhousing for Kids
  I've attended one play dates too many when parents flinch at the first sign of physical engagement between two ...
• 12 Ideas for Overcoming the Pressure to be Super Productive
  Ever feel like you need to be doing something every second of your day? Does leisure ...
• How Experts Achieve a Work-Life Balance and How You Can Too
  Trying to find that elusive work-life balance? You’re not the only one! Many people feel ...
• New Pilot Program Tries to Help the Mentally Ill Quit Smoking
  I was shocked when I read this statistic in Melinda’s Beck top-notch column, “Health Journal,” in the Wall Street Journal: Nearly half of all the ...
• 7 Ways Parents Can Help Their Teens Get Enough Sleep
  You might be surprised to learn that teens actually need more sleep than adults. Unfortunately, they tend to be ...
• Competition Among Women: Myth and Reality
  Women seem to have a reputation for being “catty” and competitive with other women, unlike how men behave with other ...
• 10 Way to Build and Preserve Better Boundaries
  Boundaries are essential to healthy relationships and, really, a healthy life. Setting and sustaining boundaries is a skill. ...
• Turning Acquaintances Into Friends
  Lonely? Go on an Internet search for how to meet new people and you’ll find dozens of sites. You know the ...
• An Overview of Health Psychology
  According to the American Psychological Association, health psychologists “help patients manage chronic disease and avoid preventable diseases” by “incorporating psychological theory ...
• Crisis of Confidence in a Teen: It’s a Family Matter
  The characters in the following vignette are fictitious. They were derived from a composite of people ...
• 5 Ways to Stress Less
  Stress is different things to different people. It’s also different things at different times to the same person. In other words, ...
• The Key to Finding a Work-Life Balance
  In today’s society, with increasing job demands and smartphones and other types of technology that keep us perpetually plugged ...
• 6 Clues for Finding Your Purpose and Passion
  I’ve rarely quit anything in my life. So when I left my doctorate clinical psychology program after receiving ...
• The First Line of Treatment for Insomnia That’ll Surprise You
  Whenever most people have serious trouble sleeping, they automatically reach for a sleeping aid, whether that’s ...
• The Preference for “Natural”
  It will probably come as no surprise that many Americans prefer "natural" to "artificial" when it comes to ...
• The Solution: Conquer Your Fear, Control Your Future
  Disclosure: I really wanted to hate the new book, The Solution: Conquer Your Fear, Control Your Future by motivational speaker and bestselling author Lucinda Bassett because it sounded a tad too simplistic, Tony Robbins-ish ...
• 9 Psychologist-Approved Must-Reads on Mental Health
  Psychologists are a discerning bunch when it comes to books. Because of their insider’s view of mental ...
• The House on Crash Corner
  Mostly anecdotal, “The House on Crash Corner,” by Mindy Greenstein, Ph.D., has a message if you “listen between the lines.” It’s a message on life and death, of understanding, simplicity, synchrony and relating. Divided into four ...
• 6 Ways to Get Organized and 5 More to Bust Through Procrastination
  Getting organized takes effort. It can seem impossible if ...
• 12 Ways to Shut Off Your Brain Before Bedtime
  Does getting to bed feel like a nightmare? For many of us, as ...