Time, Sweet Time
Teresa Watkins found out the hard way how an out-of-balance schedule can suck the joy out of life. Now she helps her clients, her family and herself savor every minute.
View ArticleWhen Less is Enough
In an environment of economic contraction, many of us are looking for meaningful ways to cut back. Here’s good advice on how to get by with a little less, and enjoy it more.
View ArticleNot Your Average Patient: How Empowering Health Seekers Are Redefining...
Is healthcare something delivered by a provider when you get sick - or something you do for yourself to stay vital, healthy and well? A growing number of health seekers say “both.” Together, they’re...
View ArticleEat at Your Own Risk: The Truth About Tainted Health Foods
Some 76,000 Americans get sick from contaminated food each year. Recent revelations indicate that even some trusted organic brands have been undermined. Here’s how our food supply got in trouble, and...
View ArticleHigh Anxiety
Some 40 million Americans regularly suffer from troubling levels of anxiety. Find out what triggers these episodes, how our bodies respond, and how you can remain calmer in the face of whatever life...
View ArticleHealth on a Budget
OK, money’s tight. But your health is invaluable. So where can you scrimp, and where should you spend wisely? Here’s how to make the money-saving decisions that are right for your budget—and your body.
View ArticleCaught in the Web
At work, at home and on the go, you probably spend hours enmeshed in the Web. Is it time to pull more of your life free of its sticky grasp?
View ArticleThe Value of Intergenerational Relationships
Becoming pals with someone outside your age group can offer rich rewards.
View ArticleFather and Son
As he was growing up in Germany, Bjorn Leonards didn’t exactly see eye to eye with his father. More like nose to nose, as the pair faced off in one argument after another. Today, the 38-year-old...
View ArticleTo the Best of Our Ability
From wheelchair marathoners and amputee cyclists to powerfully competitive quadriplegic rugby players, physically challenged athletes are teaching the rest of us some valuable lessons about doing what...
View ArticleKindhearted Kids
Teach your children to share the wealth - and watch the dividends accrue.
View ArticleEveryday Diplomacy
Your idea of a great Sunday is to rise with the sun for a long run. Your partner, however, has other ideas. His notion of a proper Sunday involves sleeping late and enjoying a leisurely brunch over the...
View ArticleHelp Wanted: Health Coach
Every year, Deborah Besch escapes the pressures of work and family to spend a weekend with her best girlfriends. They prepare meals together, quaff wine and lose themselves in late-night conversation....
View ArticleWhen Something’s Gotta Give
If you’re like most people, you feel pulled in a dozen directions by activities and pursuits that truly matter to you. You want to stay connected with parents and siblings, devote the time it takes to...
View ArticleCloser to Home: 5 Steps Toward Eating Local
Talk to folks who eat locally grown foods and eventually you’ll hear the Tale of Two Tomatoes. It goes something like this: One tomato grows up in a distant field with thousands of siblings in dirt...
View Article5 Ways to Practice Happiness
We travel in search of it, marry for the sake of it, see coaches and therapists to enhance it, switch jobs to capture it, and sock away money to secure it. Yet, for many of us, happiness remains...
View ArticleTeen Spirit
If you have children, or plan to, you’re probably familiar with the romantic images of cuddly infants, too-cute tykes, precocious preschoolers and loving grade-schoolers. But what pictures pop into...
View ArticleSimple Celebrations
When it comes to simplifying life, Marcia Ramsland wrote the book. Actually, three of them: Simplify Your Life (Thomas Nelson, 2003), Simplify Your Time (2006) and Simplify Your Space (2007). But when...
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