- General Health -
14 Ways to Reduce Your Exposure to Airborne Toxins
By Courtney HelgoeHere are some simple changes to reduce pollution exposure — and improve your lung health.
Courtney Helgoe
- Beauty -
Ingredients to Avoid in Personal-Care Products
By Courtney HelgoeLooking for safe and non-toxic shampoos, lotions, and other personal-care products? Try to avoid these ingredients.
- Environmental Health -
How Climate Change Leads to Nutrient Decline
By Courtney HelgoeGlobal warming is reducing nutrients in wheat, rice, beans, and more.
- Environmental Health -
What You Wear Can Affect Climate Change
By Courtney HelgoeAn interview with eco-fashion pioneer Marci Zaroff on the perils of commercial cotton farming.
- Aging -
New Blood Pressure Guidelines: Experts Weigh In
By Courtney HelgoeWe asked some trusted experts to weigh in on the new guidelines expanding the definition of high blood pressure. Here’s what they had to say.
- audio -
One Day at a Time: A Conversation With Terry Wahls, MD (Audio)
By Courtney HelgoeFunctional-medicine doc Terry Wahls, MD, talks with Experience Life senior editor Courtney Helgoe about living with MS, letting go of expectations, and learning to heal.
- Clean Eating -
A Whiff of Good News
By Courtney HelgoeIndustry giant Unilever opts to reveal fragrance chemicals in all of its personal-care brands.
- Life Unedited -
LIFE, UNEDITED: How the Body Keeps Score
By Courtney HelgoeA book by renowned trauma expert Bessel Van der Kolk, MD, explains how trauma lives in the body — and why the body needs to be engaged in recovery.
- Stress Relief -
How to Reboot Your Body’s Alarm System
By Courtney HelgoeIs your body’s survival response stuck in the “on” position? Aviva Romm’s new book, The Adrenal Thyroid Revolution, explains how (and why) to locate the off switch.
- Sports/Recreation -
LIFE, UNEDITED: Dance Dance Revolution
By Courtney HelgoeHow Zumba gets me back on my feet.
- Life Unedited -
LIFE, UNEDITED: Know Your Strength
By Courtney HelgoeUnexpected lessons from a self-defense class.
- Life Unedited -
LIFE, UNEDITED: Victory Lap
By Courtney HelgoeWhat my grandfather is teaching me about graceful exits.
- Life Unedited -
LIFE, UNEDITED: 10 Meditations for the Workplace
By Courtney HelgoeConsider these mindful approaches to finding more peace and happiness at the office.
- Stress Relief -
Learn to Be Well
By Courtney HelgoeWell-being is not simply the result of good genes or good luck, says pioneering researcher Richard Davidson, PhD. It’s a skill we can cultivate.
- Personal Development -
Why You Should Talk to Strangers
By Courtney HelgoeA new study shows that brief interactions with strangers make people feel better.
- Couples -
A Better Breakup
By Courtney HelgoeSenior editor Courtney Helgoe offers a little background on “conscious uncoupling.”
- Community -
Community Counts
By Courtney HelgoeRebuilding a sense of neighborliness has become its own revolutionary act. Here’s why reconnecting with neighbors and fellow citizens is important.
Indulge Your Wanderlust
By Courtney HelgoePart yoga festival, part rave, the Wanderlust Festival feeds the mind, body and spirit — well into the wee hours.
- Aging -
Slow Medicine
By Courtney HelgoeSenior editor Courtney Helgoe on Slow Medicine and the importance of choice in treating chronic or terminal illnesses.
Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People
By Courtney HelgoeThe authors of Blindspot show us how to “outsmart the machinery of our own hidden biases.”
- Money -
For Love and Money: The Sequel
By Courtney HelgoeAuthor and financial educator Ruth Hayden explains the “four cornerstones” of a healthy partnership, and how they can relieve the stress of sharing a financial life.