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Many of us still make resolutions and intentions. Do we make any that involve our kids?

Even before COVID-19, research showed shocking levels of stress among workers. So, what’s the answer? Here’s my perspective on the situation.

Millennial mothers want balance and wellness in motherhood. Here are 5 steps for how to actually find it.

Forgiveness—is it a moralistic cliche or a concept that may save your health? Learn lessons from ancient history and "how-tos" from a cognitive-behavioral therapist.

Do you feel like you must have a happy face, even when you aren’t feeling it? Several cultural factors are working on you.

Is your self-care and mental health sliding with the new COVID surge? Science shows how a novel approach can improve your mood and outlook, and motivate you for positive change.

No one likes feeling anxious. But before you try eliminating or even reducing the weight of your anxiety, please consider this: Anxiety can actually enhance your life.

Do you feel haunted by regrets? These five steps can help you stop obsessing and start moving forward.

If one dream immediately brings to mind another dream, try analyzing them both as a part of a full conversation—it might increase your learning.

Have you ever felt inclined to express social support, but stopped yourself from doing so?

In our culture, we think of abuse as being only physical; however, emotional abuse can be equally damaging.

Has COVID taken your get-up-and-go? Try this surprisingly effective way to bring back your vitality.

Empathy, as a stand-alone response to another's suffering, can be draining. Compassionate responses add action to emotion, and this nourishes us in ways that empathy alone cannot.

A new study offers advice on how to manage overwhelming emotions.

Retaining democracy and fighting fascism depend on combating misinformation, using critical thinking, motivational interviewing, and political action.

Learn to recognize your unique needs and care for them well.

The brain partitions our aesthetic experiences of narrative into an appreciation of literary form and style and engagement with emotional content.

Claims of "mass delusion" and "mass formation psychosis" are being used inappropriately as pejoratives to denigrate our ideological opponents and advance political agendas.

What a neurologist can diagnose from reading a handwritten letter.

The connection between creativity and accepting risks is positive. As a result, including more risk-taking in your career or personal life may result in higher levels of creative progress.

Intense and varied emotions are naturally a part of matrescence, the process and transition of becoming a mother. Here are some coping strategies for new moms.

Feeling overwhelmed by a new project? Here's a method for tackling that new project!

What will it take to bring Republicans and Democrats back to the negotiation table?

And questions that can encourage a good balance.

The stress of the past two years has caused many of us to rethink our hustle-culture society; this way of goal-setting can help us reclaim what's important.

Optimism does increase your chances of success. But it needs to be the right kind of optimism.

I thought the pandemic would be over by now, so I'm always looking for strategies to help me become a better college instructor. Resilience is an important concept to consider.