Your Friendship Map
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Imagine a map with miniature passport photos of your loved ones, tagging their geographic location. Where do your family and friends live? Hopefully, there is a cluster of connection near…
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Summer’s Paradox
Summer is considered a time of rest and relaxation, but summer is naturally a time of energy and growth. The summer light invites you to stay up late and get…
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Brighten Your Aging Filter
Your perceptions of aging impact your long-term outcome. The World Health Organization identified ageism as a “prevalent and insidious” health threat based on research demonstrating how negative expectations about aging…
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Take Charge of Your Inner Pharmacist
Whether you realize it or not, your brain acts as a full-time internal pharmacist, managing your body’s natural biochemistry. I imagine my inner pharmacist wearing a white medical coat with…
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Creature Comforts: The Health Benefits of Pets
It was “total pandemonium” when Dr. Bill Thomas released one hundred parakeets into the beauty salon of the nursing home because his order of birdcages was delayed. But he was…
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Your Happiness Playlist
Experience embodied delight through music. Sounds are vibrations hitting your eardrums, but the rest of your body is resonating too. Imagine yourself as a guitar or piano – music vibrates…
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Authentic Connection
This Valentine’s Day, enhance your connection with your loved ones by sharing more genuinely with each other. Take a risk by asking deeper questions and reciprocate by sharing about yourself…
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What’s Your Theme for the New Year?
How’s your new year’s resolution holding up so far? Have you been able to stick to your goal of going to bed earlier, drinking less alcohol, getting to the gym…
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Welcome Wonder
During the holidays, we enjoy tales of wonder, whether about oil that miraculously lasted eight nights or the story of of angels, virgin birth and a guiding star. Even the…
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Discover Your Joyful Surroundings
Step out of the chatter of your mind and orient to the joy that surrounds you. The human brain has a unique capacity to put things into perspective. We can…
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