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How Rudeness at Work Affects Your Spouse and Their Job
The far-reaching implications of working in a hostile environment.
Body Talk: What Your Nonverbal Cues Are Communicating
Are your nonverbal cues sending troubling messages to your coworkers? Here’s how to get your body language in line.
Navigating Change
Change is in the air. Not only is the weather subtly shifting with the turn of the season soon upon us, but deeply, on an inside basis, change is just, well everywhere.
COMING CLEAN: Back in the Saddle
The last time I rode a horse was in fifth or sixth grade. We’d go horseback riding near our cabin…
The Health Benefits of Volunteering
How volunteer work can improve your physical and emotional well-being.
COMING CLEAN: Running Buddy
We spent Labor Day weekend at Kyle’s family’s cabin, so I would once again miss my Saturday Boot Camp class.…
Bribery and the Fit Family
Triathlete shares her thoughts on the strength of family fitness.
Can School Lunch Be Saved?
What kids eat at school can influence their eating habits for a lifetime. Here’s how a growing movement is working hard to create healthier school-lunch programs across the country.
The Value of Intergenerational Relationships
Becoming pals with someone outside your age group can offer rich rewards.
The Art of Conversation
Here’s how to start a conversation with someone you don’t know, as well as conversational killers, body language signs to watch, and how to be a better listener.
How to Fight Fair in a Relationship
Psychologist Richard Nicastro on how to avoid low blows and cheap shots and prevent unfair arguments.
COMING CLEAN: A Little Help From My Friends
Changing my diet has taken great discipline. Not only have I fought my own internal voices of dissent, I’ve heard…
5 Strategies to Get Your Sex Drive Back
A healthy libido is about more than desire. It’s about experiencing pleasure that’s essential to our minds, bodies and spirits. And in the face of stress, it often goes into hiding. Here, expert Marcelle Pick offers tips on how to rediscover your desire.
5 Ways to Get Fit as a Family
Learn how to engage your children and get involved with their fitness.
Tips for Ending Bickering and Improving Your Relationship with Your Partner
Do you find yourself endlessly bickering with your partner about an issue that just won’t go away? Therapist and author Linda Carroll, MS, explains how to break out of the battle.
Put Bitterness Behind You
Negative emotions may suppress the immune system and increase vulnerability to disease.
The Penny Pincher’s Guide to Eating Cheap (a.k.a. Notes From My Mother)
Senior health editor Anjula Razdan offers advice on how to eat well without breaking the bank.
The Unseen Risks of Secondhand Smoke and Kids
Being exposed to smoke-filled environments can affect children’s future smoking habits.
How to Find Recreational Companionship With Your Partner
Sharing downtime with the one you love brings you closer together. But digging totally different activities can drive you apart. Here’s how to handle the stress of clashing leisure styles.
The Surprising Health Benefits of Volunteering
There are plenty of fine reasons to volunteer. Do it for charity, for community – or just for the health of it!
Goodbye, Mother Guilt: The Secret to Staying Committed Is Letting Go
Laurie Lethert Kocanda on overcoming mother guilt.