January / February 2015: Reinvent Yourself

- Mindfulness -

Brain-Body Benefits of Meditation

The influences of meditation stretch from head to toe, positively affecting your brain, heart, and immune system, and helping with chronic pain, insomnia, and depression. We’ve rounded up some intriguing recent research showing that meditation is a powerful ally for mind, body, and spirit.

- Fitness Tips -

Be Strong, Live Long

By Experience Life Staff

One more great reason to start strength training now: Older adults with more muscle mass live longer.

- Nutrition -

E-Cig 101

By Experience Life Staff

Are electronic cigarettes any healthier than tobacco cigarette? The answer is hazy, finds a 2014 review published in the Journal of Addiction Medicine.

The New Health Rules

By Experience Life Staff

Transform your health with simple tips from Dr. Frank Lipman’s new book.

Marie Forleo: The Life You Want

By Maggie Fazeli Fard

Marie Forleo wants to help you build a life you love — by developing the gifts that are uniquely yours to give.

Make a Vision Board

By Experience Life Staff

Clarify your direction for this year (and beyond) with this inspiring art project.

- Workouts -

Worst-Case-Scenario Fitness

By Bryan Krahn, CSCS

A hardcore workout that will prep you for surviving in the wilderness, escaping danger — or handling everyday household chores.

- Fitness Tips -

Expert Answers: What is heart-rate variability?

By Wendy Watkins

Your questions answered.

- Fitness Tips -

Can I chew gum while working out?

By Wendy Watkins

Your questions answered.

- Workouts -

Fitness Fix: Strengthening Your Pelvic-Floor Muscles

By Wendy Watkins

Strengthen your pelvic-floor muscles with these simple exercises.

- Success Stories -

Ironman: Jason Johnson’s Success Story

By Jason Johnson

Heeding a desperate call to change, one man sets his will on reclaiming his health and fitness.

- Digital Detox -

Digital Detox

By Heidi Wachter

Experience Life’s social-media specialist unplugs her devices and enjoys some old-school fun at adult summer camp.

- Nutrition -

Full-Spectrum Eating

By Sheila Mulrooney Eldred

Trying to weather the storm of nutrition advice? Seek out a rainbow of colorful produce, and you’ll find a big pot of phytonutrient gold.

- Nutrition -

Home-Cooked

By Laurie David

Homemade meals can help us lose weight, develop healthy-food habits, and enrich our relationships. Dinner’s on!

- Honestly, Dara -

Hidden Treasures

By Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl

When it comes to the real value of vegetables, nutrition labels don’t begin to reveal the whole truth.

- Fitness Tips -

Are We Having Fun Yet?

By Margret Aldrich

Weary of your workout? Dreading your dreary routine? Find your fitness bliss by putting the fun back in activity.

- Perspective by Bahram Akradi -

From Resolution to Commitment

By Bahram Akradi

Thinking about making some positive changes in the coming year? Here’s how to set yourself up for success — and a feel-good experience.

Fearless Health

By Jill Metzler Patton

Worrying excessively about our well-being can do us more harm than good. Here’s how to keep your health concerns in perspective.

- Weight Loss -

Rethinking the Rules of Weight Loss

By Experience Life Staff

Forget what you’ve been told. Forget what you think you know. Forget the old rules — and you might just start making some headway.

- Green Home -

Order Out of Chaos: The Linen Closet and Bathroom

By Andrea Gerasimo

How to arrange your bathroom and linen closet so they support a more peaceful start to the day.

Why Thinking Positively Doesn’t (Always) Work

By Jon Spayde

How to stay emotionally authentic — without becoming a grouch.

Revolutionary Act 8: Minimize Symptom Suppression

By Pilar Gerasimo

Make whole-person vitality, well-being and resilience your goal. Partner with healthcare pros who understand and support your desire to be fully healthy with a minimum of medical interventions.

How To Reinvent Yourself

By Steve Chandler

Want to move beyond your life’s current limits? Shift your motive from self-presentation to service.

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Behind the Scenes With Marie Forleo (Video)

By Experience Life Staff

An entrepreneur, Web celeb, and the host of MarieTV, Marie Forleo has found her calling in helping others pursue their dreams and identify their passion and purpose. Hear more from her about the importance of embracing our individual greatness and how owning our strengths can help change the world in our exclusive video.

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The Worst-Case-Scenario Workout (Video)

By Experience Life Staff

The five exercises in this worst-case-scenario workout will prepare you for surviving in the wilderness — and dealing with everyday chores. Plus, get a bonus leg complex!

How We Change

By Pilar Gerasimo

Founding editor, Pilar Gerasimo, on the challenges — and successes — we face as we embrace change.