Health & Balance News & Features
- What to Say When Someone Says Something Sexist
Learn about helpful responses to sexist comments.
- What to Say When Faced With Ageism
Do you see ageism in your life? Learn how to identify ageism, what to say, and more.
- What Is Urge Surfing?
Urge surfing is a mental technique to manage urges and cravings. Learn more about what it is, why it’s important, and more.
- What to Say to Someone Trying to Lose Weight
Learn what’s helpful and not helpful to say to someone trying to lose weight.
- Tips From Master Gardeners
Learn gardening tips from master gardeners, including planning, planting, and upkeep of your garden.
- How to Be More Generous
Step-by-step tips on how to be more generous.
- How to Keep Your Social Media In Check
Learn how to develop a healthy relationship with your social media.
- How to Work With a Health Coach
Learn about health coaching, including what questions to ask so that you find the right coach.
- How to Unlearn Unconscious Bias
Everyone has unconscious biases. Learn how they work and how to change them.
- How to Make Your Commute More Sane
Learn about how to improve your commute, including how to adopt commuting rituals to keep your travels interesting.
- Stop Negative Thinking
Struggling to stop negative thoughts? Read more to learn how to shift your mind and transform the types of thoughts you have.
- Catastrophizing: The Worst Thing Ever
Learn what catastrophizing looks like and how to stop yourself from doing it.
- 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.