Healthy Living Articles

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• 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 ...
• 10 Traits of Highly Productive People
  For many of us, productivity sounds like an intimidating word. Or it’s akin to catching a butterfly. You keep running after ...
• The Truth About Grief: The Myth of Its Five Stages
  Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s famous five stages — denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance — have been taught all over America and basically become part of our vernacular. In fact, in many ways these stages have been ...
• Meditation for Beginners
  I’m a mess when it comes to meditating. I feel like I break all the rules. I fidget. I daydream. I am ...
• Five Pathways to Happiness
  We all yearn for happiness, but many of us go about it the wrong way. For instance, acquiring things makes us ...
• What You Need to Know Before Living Together
  Over 12 million unmarried Americans are living together in 6 million ...
• A Good Sex Life is Not Just About Chemistry
  Sometimes sexual problems are the body’s way of communicating a message to us that cannot ...
• Choosing the Right Diet
  Starting a new weight-loss program can be intimidating. There are so many questions and so many different answers. With so much ...
• Humor As Weapon, Shield and Psychological Salve
  Humor has long been recognized as more than mere fun and games. It presents an alternative means of expressing criticism about injustices, ...
• When Mental Illness Strikes: Tips for Couples
  Mental illness is tough on couples. “The stress level often stretches into a crisis mode, in which managing the illness becomes, for ...
• Getting on Track with Your Eating Behaviors
  For those who struggle with food and eating, the new year often brings the resolution to do better this time around: Lose ...
• The Mindful Way through Holiday Anxiety
  The holidays are filled with joy, cheer, good food -- and often a whole lot of stress. There are gifts to buy and mall crowds ...
• 10 Tips for Setting Successful Resolutions That Stick
  We know what you're thinking: Here's another article that’s going to give me the same old tips for making and keeping ...
• When Your Child Asks, Is Santa Real?
  December rituals are similar in millions of households around the U.S. There’s a big buildup to Christmas with trips to visit ...