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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Do Carbohydrates Keep Dieters Happy? Low-carbohydrate diets may negatively affect dieters' well-being, researchers have found.
A team from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Australia looked at ...
Total Relaxation: Healing Practices for Body, Mind & Spirit Who among us could not use a little more relaxation in our lives? Especially since Americans as a whole seem to have forgotten how to incorporate active rest into the quotidian, relying instead on mindless ...
What We Eat: Morality and the Dinner Table We humans enjoy dividing things into categories. Doing so helps us form cognitive shortcuts and organize large sets of information. ...
Proximity to Green Spaces Boosts Health New research confirms the importance for health of living near green spaces. Dr. Jolanda Maas of the VU University Medical Centre in Amsterdam, ...
Food, Family and the Holidays If you tend to struggle with food, weight and body image, holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas can be particularly challenging, because they revolve so much ...
