Herbal Stocking Stuffers To Make
Here’s three super simple ideas to have fun and save a little money while giving thoughtful, useful herbal gifts this season.
The Art Of Self-Compassion In Addiction Recovery
Imagine this: you’ve woken up one morning, years into recovery, and realized your inner critic has gone quiet. Not vanished; it’s just quieter. It’s still there, but softer, its voice less convincing. In its place, a calmer tone — patient, maybe even playful.
Assessed Value
In our everyday lives we are all assessors. We assess everything that happens to us and assign some sort of meaning to it. This meaning, however, cannot be not derived from the circumstance or event itself, but rather from our unconscious, personal and subjective assessment of it.
Good News Headlines 11/17/2025
For a company that makes half the world’s zippers, new ideas have big impacts. YKK's innovative new tapeless zipper saves tons of fabric scraps while creating a better fit on your clothes.
The New Health Crisis: Dodging Hard Feelings (And Two Simple Fixes)
The ease at which we avoid hard emotions is not solely a factor of our dependence on rapid-fire digital stimulation. There’s more to it, and it speaks to all the messages that have made their way into our collective consciousness about feeling, or rather not feeling.
Kiwi For Constipation — How Many To Eat, How Fast It Works, And Who It's For
For decades, the standard approach to treating constipation involved high-fiber diets or over-the-counter laxatives. Yet, one recent study found that eating a small, nutrient-dense fruit — kiwifruit — offers surprising benefits in easing this common bowel issue.
A Call To Gather
Affirm the visions and values you want for your future, and understand you have the power to project thought, and reality responds with manifestation. Make all of your positive feelings as big as you can, then share them with like-minded others in person to amplify those feelings within yourself and the world around you.
How To Challenge Toxic Behavior And Help Someone Being Bullied Or Harassed At Work
By simply noticing and speaking up about unwanted and unacceptable workplace behaviour, even if it’s happening to someone else, you can help to change it. By having a zero tolerance attitude to bullying, you can help shatter the destructive silence that often grows in toxic workplaces.
4 Inviting Ways To Beat The Winter Blues In The Colder Months
Rather than simply surviving winter, we can approach it as a season to learn, adapt and deepen resilience. Making time your ally, seeking wonder outdoors, cultivating joy and practicing meditation and mindfulness are all ways to engage meaningfully with the season.
Good News Headlines 11/10/2025
At the WSJ Innovator Awards where Billie Eilish was honored with the Music Innovator Award, during her acceptance speech she called on the world's wealthiest people in attendance to donate part of their fortune to those in need, like her recent $11.5 million donation towards climate justice and environmental work.
What Are Your Ancestors Trying To Tell You?
Deep in your history, your ancestors — your parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, great-great-grandparents, as far back as you can imagine and then some — had a dream, an image, a vision of what they hoped for the lives of their descendants. You are that dream.
When Perfectionism Becomes The Problem
Perfectionism tells us that we are worthy only when everything is in order. It creates constant pressure to prove and perform. And when we inevitably fall short because we’re human, it triggers shame, guilt, or self-criticism.
Hot Baths Trigger Exercise-Like Effects
If you're trying to use hot baths as a natural therapy to boost your circulation, lower inflammation, or support immune function, you're on the right track — but only if you're smart about how you do it.
While Politicos Dispense Blame, These Doctors Aim To Take Shame Out of Medicine
When students are taught about shame, the goal is to help future physicians recognize the emotion in themselves and others, so they don’t perpetuate the cycle. Shame remains “a crack in your armor you don’t want to show. Heaven forbid you act like you’re not capable or show fear.
Good News Headlines 11/3/2025
Private nonprofits and celebrities continue to show up in support of those impacted by the government shutdown. Furloughed federal workers eat for free at Bon Jovi's 'Pay It Forward' restaurant, as an estimated 1.4 million federal workers enter a fourth week either furloughed or working without pay.
May You Give And Glow
Kind giving is a great way to expand the canvas of our lives in difficult moments, turning negatives into positives, heartaches into peace. The volume of our generosity in time or dollars does not matter. Small helping acts are as beneficial to the giver as big ones.
What Did The Hot Dog Vendor Say To The Guru?
As long as there is no recognition that what is occurring on the outside is merely a reflection of what's going on inside, daily life will continue to appear totally random and unpredictable, also causing its own confusion, fear and apprehension.
How To Keep Wildflowers From Going Extinct Under The Radar
Wildflowers need space, water, sun and clean air to survive and thrive. A healthy ecosystem flourishes while a toxic one becomes a wasteland. The time is now to be proactive in protecting what open space we have left.
Walking Pace, Not Just Time Spent Walking, Tied to Longevity Benefits
Nearly 80,000 adults from different backgrounds were followed for close to two decades, as researchers looked beyond step counts to ask a deeper question — could the pace of your walk reveal more about its impact on your health and longevity than time alone?
Good News Headlines 10/27/2025
Once hammered by overhunting and habitat loss, sea turtles have persevered and are rebounding worldwide with new conservation efforts such as nest and habitat protection, says 2025 NOAA study.
Waiting As Spiritual Practice
Embracing waiting in small moments in your everyday life serves as a teacher, priming you to see opportunities for larger life stage pauses when they present themselves. It helps us build comfort in the unknown.
Daily Astrology
December 18, 2025
As is so often the case, this last day of the monthly lunar cycle is a low energy affair. Catch your breath. Finish up what projects can be completed. Wait on beginning anything consequential until tomorrow’s New Moon...
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