Health & Balance Features
- What Are Microaggressions?
“Microaggression” refers to when someone, either accidentally or purposefully, says or does something offensive to a member of a minority group.
- Clean Air Tips for Your Home
The air in your home may be as polluted as the air outside of it – or even more. Find out why and learn strategies for breathing easy.
- How to Forgive Yourself
Struggling to reconcile something you have done to another person? Read on to learn more about the process of self-forgiveness.
- How to Break Up With a Toxic Friend
Step by step tips on how to break up with a toxic friend.
- How to Feel Less Anxious About Money
Learn about financial anxiety and its effects on your health, along with how to get a handle on financial stress.
- Eco-Friendly Ways to Clean Your Whole House
Learn eco-friendly cleaning habits for Your home.
- 4 Surprising Facts About Willpower
Working on your willpower? Learn these strategies to help.
- How to Set Goals
Learn about setting goals, including how to create a plan for success in achieving your goals.
- How to Recover After Divorce
Struggling after your divorce? Get some wisdom on how to heal and move on.
- How to Be a Good Friend
Learn the qualities and traits that make a good friend and how to be one.
- How to Apologize and Mean It
Learn why it’s important to apologize, and how to be sincere in your apologies.
- How to Be Vulnerable
Struggling to reveal yourself to the people you love and others? Learn more about how to let the inner you shine.
- How to Be More Empathetic
Want to feel more connected to others? Learn more about the ways you can increase your empathy for others.
- How to Be Kind to Yourself
Struggling with self-criticism or negative thoughts? Learn more about what self-kindness is and how to be kinder to yourself.
- How to Overcome Perfectionism
Struggling with perfectionism? Learn more about its health implications and how to overcome being a perfectionist.
- How to Have Tough Talks With Your Family
Need to bring up something difficult with a family member? Learn more about how to do so with compassion.
- How to Fall Asleep With Mindfulness Techniques
Struggling with getting yourself to sleep? Learn more about the mindfulness techniques you can use to fall asleep.
- How to Stay Safe in Rideshares
Unsure of how to protect yourself during rideshare rides? Learn more about the different ways you can prevent a negative experience.
- How to Handle Being Laid Off
Learn about the impacts of losing your job and how to cope.
- How to Be a Better Listener
Learn about the importance of listening and how you can improve your listening skills.
- How to Stop Comparing Yourself to Celebrities
Struggling to stop comparing yourself to celebrities? These 3 steps can help you break the habit and reclaim your sense of self-worth.
- How to Rebound From a Job Loss
Just because your job has ended doesn’t mean your career is over. Update your resume and get busy looking for a new job opportunity.
- How to Manage Your Perfectionism
Struggling to manage your perfectionistic tendencies? Learn more about the steps to help curb the pressure to be perfect.
- How to Handle Sibling Conflict and Rivalry
Struggling to manage sibling conflict and rivalry? Here are 8 steps to help you take back control and get back in charge.
- How to Support Someone After a Layoff
Learn how to support someone after a layoff, including what they're experiencing, ways to help, and more.
- Don't Have a Green Thumb? Try Houseplants
You don't need a green thumb to grow houseplants. Learn how to easily fill your home with greenery with these houseplant tips.
- Eco-Friendly Bath Habits
Learn about simple changes to make your bathroom more eco-friendly.
- Adult Coloring Books: 7 Benefits of Coloring
Learn about how coloring is good for adults too.
- Perfectionism: 6 Consequences to Watch For
Learn how perfectionism can affect your productivity and mental health.
- The 6 Superpowers of Introverts
Are you an introvert yet wonder how your tendencies for solitude and quiet benefit you? Read more to find out how some of the qualities of introverts can be considered to be superpowers.
- What to Say When Someone Says Something Racist
Learn about helpful and unhelpful responses to racist comments.
- What Are the Different Types of Relationships?
How many different types of relationships are there? What do terms like friends with benefits or domestic partnership mean?
- How to Keep Adult Friendships
Learn more about adult friendships, why they’re good for your health, how to nurture friendships, how to reach out to friends, and what to do if things go bad.
- How to Make New Friends
Learn more about adult friendships, how and where to make new friends, how to make online friends, what not to do, and when you know you’re friends.
- How to End a Friendship
Learn how to tell if your friendship is unhealthy, signs that it’s time to move on, how to end it in a healthy way, and whether you can ever be friends again.
- Outgrowing a Friendship
Do you feel like your friendship has soured? Some strategies to remove yourself without hurting your friend.
- Do You Need a Nature Prescription?
Nature therapy (or ecotherapy) pairs people with natural environments to encourage healing. Learn about the benefits nature therapy has to offer.
- Take 10 With Marie Kondo
Tidying expert Marie Kondo answers 10 questions.
- Simple Steps Toward a Healthier Lifestyle
Want to take better care of yourself, but not sure where to start? These simple health tips can help you create new habits.
- Social Media Sympathy
Nowadays, much of people's grieving shows up online. See the advice a professor of communication has about the benefits and pitfalls of mourning on social media.
- Exhausted Nurse's Photo Shows Emotional Toll of Job
Nurses take care of people every day, but who takes care of them?
- Do Mindfulness Apps Really Help Your Health?
Technology can bring nonstop, alarmist news alerts, online arguments, and "fear of missing out." Can it, in the form of mindfulness apps, also help correct the problem?
- The Loneliness Epidemic Has Very Real Consequences
Feeling alone ranks up there with smoking, obesity, and physical inactivity in terms of its effects on your health, an expert says.
- 5 Morning Habits Health Experts Swear By
Find out how doctors, trainers, and nutritionists start each day on a healthy note.
- Workplace Bully
Bad behavior at work is unsettling and takes a toll on everyone in the office.
- What Meditation Did For Me – and Can For You Too
Author Dan Harris and meditation expert Joseph Goldberg discuss how even the busiest, most distracted person can find a calmer state of mind.
- Good and Mad: Healthy Responses to Anger
Anger is a valid and healthy emotion. But how you respond to it and express it, can be harmful. Learn how to tame the beast.
- Doing Good Really Is Good for You
Volunteering may help you live longer and better, research shows. Here's how to get started.
- Be Your Best Self
Try this Japanese approach to gain a healthy perspective on life.
- Sit Still for 5 Minutes a Day
In today's chaotic world, it can be a challenge to unwind and just be still for 5 minutes.