Brain/Mental Health Archives

- Nutrition -

4 Supplements for Anxiety Relief

By Catherine Guthrie

In addition to herbal remedies, targeted nutritional supplements can help manage chronic anxiety.

- Brain/Mental Health -

NATURAL MENTAL HEALTH: A Place to Start

By Henry Emmons, MD

Here’s how to build your resilience by attending to your whole self.

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- Work -

How to Overcome Workplace Burnout

By Quinton Skinner

The effects of workplace burnout are real and widespread. Here are some signs of burnout — as well as strategies to help you recover and reengage.

- Stress Relief -

5 Herbs for Anxiety

By Catherine Guthrie

Plant-based remedies to help ease your mind.

- Stress Relief -

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 throws your way.

- Fitness Tips -

Exercising Your Memory

By Experience Life Staff

Can a single workout help our memory?

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- Coming Clean -

COMING CLEAN: In the Rearview Mirror

By Courtney Lewis Opdahl

Our managing editor reflects on the 20 lessons she’s learned 20 years after a car accident.

- General Health -

Why Noise Is Bad for Our Health

By Craig Cox

Noise can elevate our stress hormones — even at levels that do not produce hearing damage — according to a recent study.

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- Stress Relief -

How Movement Therapy Can Heal Traumatic Stress

By Maggie Fazeli Fard

Traumatic stress can be debilitating and terrifying. Movement therapy — involving increasingly accessible, thoughtful approaches to exercise — offers new hope.

- Brain/Mental Health -

Greener Childhood, Happier Adulthood

By Heidi Wachter

Access to green space during childhood may lower the incidence of mental-health issues later on, according to a recent study.

- Brain/Mental Health -

What You Need to Know About Addiction and the Brain

By Alexandra Smith, LPCC

Addiction is common — and it’s complicated.

- Mindfulness -

Creating Calm: Tamara Levitt

By Heidi Wachter

App content producer Tamara Levitt is helping millions of people learn to find balance and presence amid life’s chaos.

- Brain/Mental Health -

How to Deal With Traumatic Memories

By Jon Spayde

Here is one expert’s four-step process for coping with trauma.

- Aging -

Healthy Heart = Healthy Brain for Seniors?

By Craig Cox

Tending to your cardiovascular health may ward off dementia in seniors, a recent study says.

- Pumping Irony -

PUMPING IRONY: A Good Death?

By Craig Cox

New research suggests that killing off neurons in our aging brains might prevent, rather than invite, Alzheimer’s. Personal experience suggests it may be more complicated than that.

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- Gut Health -

How Childhood Adversity Creates Toxic Stress

By Heidi Wachter

Pioneering pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris is transforming how public-health advocates respond to the toxic stress created by childhood adversity. Here, she shares her prescription for healing.