It’s not an unusual scene: the kids are running through the house, chasing each other, playing tag, tackling, tickling. Friends are over and the girls have jumped in with the boys. Everyone is giggling and h […]

So you finally kicked your regular soda habit, but now you find yourself reaching for cans of the diet soft drink variety. Trouble is – diet soda as a replacement for regular soda – is a whole new pro […]

For more than a decade, I’ve quivered at the thought of attending a hip-opening workshop. Having played ice hockey and been a skateboarder for more 15 years, my hips were molten lead that no amount of Pigeon P […]

I don’t know what they taught you when you were young or how much love your parents gave you, but let’s get one thing straight. Love isn’t supposed to be hard.

Let’s just all stop for a moment and focus on this […]

“The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.” —Ray L. Wilbur

Toys are not merely playthings. Toys form the building blocks for our child’s future. They te […]

Stretching before and after a workout is a great way to promote blood flow to the muscles and increase flexibility. But do you know what muscles you’re stretching?

Stretching may help you improve the range of mo […]

Athletes get into “the zone.” Creatives tap into “flow state.” We may obtain a heightened sense of awareness in these moments, but they are exactly that: temporary. Once the rock climber comes down from the mount […]

For years, long after the opioid crisis began, the giant pharmacy chains, including Walgreens and CVS, and Walmart did almost nothing to fulfill their legal duty to monitor suspicious orders, the plaintiffs’ l […]

“You only see in others what you have in yourself.” ~Annette Noontil

I now recognize, after observing painful patterns repeat many times, how things that trigger me are just lessons I need to learn that are oft […]

From Elizabeth Scott, MS @ Very Well Mind: Many of us have so many responsibilities in life that we forget to take care of our personal needs. This is particularly true for mothers, who have many caregiving […]

Any drug that alters a person’s consciousness in a way that makes self-defense or sound decision-making difficult can be a date rape drug.

Most estimates suggest that at least 25 percent or 1 in 4 of […]

Researchers at Brown University found that just a few drinks in an evening changes how memories are formed at the fundamental, molecular level. In scientific terms, alcohol hijacks a conserved memory pathway in […]

From Rosie McCall @ Health: When you think of a sociopath, you probably picture Christian Bale in American Psycho, or Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs. But like most mental health conditions, […]

Scientists have discovered that regular use of the party drug GHB, and especially unconsciousness following GHB use, is associated with brain changes including negative effects on long-term memory, working memory, […]

From Science Daily: “Very little has been known about recovery from cannabis use problems, and this is the first study to examine that on a national basis,” says John Kelly, PhD, director of the Recovery […]

Having obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) isn’t easy. The condition, marked by uncontrollable thoughts and behaviors, strikes about 2% of the general population—a figure that in the U.S. alone means nearly 6.5 […]