Just in case you missed this for 5/23/2012

I have worked with numerous couples who could be in a great relationship, except they both have forgotten to be thoughtful to one another…

Hey you! Yes, I mean YOU! What if I told you that this blog was written especially for you? Would you believe me? Maybe. Maybe not. That’…

Applying the Nature principle. Want to improve your family’s mental and physical health, and increase their creativity and learning abili…

Last winter, I was asked to talk about Plan B Nation on New England NPR. I’d just launched the blog the month before. I was pretty thrill…

Things are easier said than done, or so the old adage goes, and we couldn’t agree more. That’s why we do The GOOD 30-Day Challenge (#30Da…

In his influential paper of 1943, A Theory of Human Motivation, the American psychologist Abraham Maslow proposed that healthy human bein…

Looking at mountain climbing to understand happiness. George Mallory, an early 20th century mountain climber, was once asked why he climb…

Meditation is simple and transformative, yet it is highly misunderstood. Some people think it is about controlling our mind or stopping o…

There’s someone in every family and group of friends who always has a joke ready for any situation. Being able to see the funny moments i…

As rates of obesity-related diseases soar, researchers are focusing their attention on why we love our food so much. Researchers affiliat…

I once wrote a science fiction story about an alien who crash-landed her space craft near a mining town in the Old West. A decidedly arac…

Want to improve your relationships? Having trouble sleeping? Feeling stuck in your career? Coping with bereavement? Looking to hone your …

More than 90 percent of Americans think equal access to fresh produce is very or somewhat important , according to a new survey by the W….

New research suggests that parents may be happier than their peers without kids-this conclusion goes directly against past data that show…

As I described in my personal health journey, I was once a doctor suffering from a wide array of health conditions before I finally woke …

In the popular Jaywalking segments of his television show, Jay Leno asks a variety of fourth grade questions to random people on the stre…

Last week I was flying across the country for a television appearance and observed one of the strangest phenomena I’ve seen in a long tim…

Redheads are harder to sedate than any other group. Using most common anesthetics, they require on average about 20% more anesthesia. The…