Domestic Peace: Tips for Handling Stress at Home
Getting along at home isn’t always easy. If you are among the people spending many extra hours at home right now, you know this to be...
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Practicing Mindful Creativity
As we move farther into the New Year, I’m finding mindfulness to be an important ongoing theme. Incidentally, mindfulness perfectly...
Living in the Present: Fifteen Tips for Everyday Mindfulness
We humans spend much of our lives time traveling. While modern technology can’t transport us physically to a different time, our thoughts...
Revisiting Your Resolutions: Minimums for Mental Health
How many of you have already broken your New Year’s resolutions this year? Hands up. Don’t be shy. You’re among friends. That’s what I...
Silent Night: Creating Quiet Time
This holiday season, I’ve been listening to Lavar Burton read Maxwell King’s biography of Fred Rogers, The Good Neighbor. In times of...
Ten Tips for Eating Well over the Holidays
Author’s Note: Although I have extensive experience in eating for the purpose of improving my own personal health, I am neither a...
What We Do in the Face of Grief
By the time you read this, the world will have become a colder, crueler place. As I type, the kindest, most optimistic man I ever knew,...
Brain Food: Eating for Your Mental Health
Author’s Note: Although I have extensive experience in eating for the purpose of improving my own personal health, I am neither a...
Forget About Fault: Stop Blaming Yourself or Others
Humans love to place blame. We blame others. We blame ourselves. Usually, when we’re caught up in the blame game, we also resort to...
Cool Weather Comfort: Tips for Surviving the Change of Seasons
Changes of season can be difficult on our mental and physical health. As days grow shorter and the weather grows colder, you might...
Sleep Hygiene: Five Practical Tips for Getting Better Sleep
Each of us has unique needs when it comes to rest. Some people need nine to ten hours of sleep every night. Others can thrive on six...
Healing Gratitude
Do gratitude lists really help improve mental health? As a child, I often felt annoyed when my mom insisted on singing happy songs or...
Writing and the Mind-Body Connection: How to Improve Your Health by Writing
Author’s Note: Writing about trauma can be difficult and sometimes dangerous. If you choose to work through past events by writing, make...
Self-Soothing: Tips for Successful Adulting
You’re a grownup, so snuggling your blankie while sucking your thumb during naptime is no longer age appropriate. Still, on stressful...
Fear-Based Fun: Can Anxiety Be Frightfully Good?
All the Halloween fright-night lovers reading this have already answered a resounding “yes” to this question. Many of us love to be...
Healing with Sustainable Movement
Sustainable Movement classes begin again today, and I’ve been thinking a lot about the miracles that tend to happen during these...
Ten Easy Tips for Creating Sacred Space
Creating a sacred space—a safe and productive space that feeds your soul—is an important self-care skill. You don’t have to use the top...
Art and Self-Care
Art makes life more palatable This reality is embraced by artists, but denied by many people who would rather see the writers, poets,...
Creative Healing and Radical Self-Care
What happens when healers need healing? Ideally, healers have the inside track, but often self-care can be hard to come by for those in...
Engaging All Five Senses in Creative Self-Care
Each of our senses—touch, taste, sight, smell and hearing—have unique connections to our memories and our mental health. The more senses...
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