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From the outside, Kevin Breel looks like he has it all. He is a successful comedian, team captain, and gets invited to parties. No one would think that he is depressed. Yet, he is. In this [...]

At the risk of oversimplifying, it strikes me that we can assess how well we’re living life, and, in turn, develop a plan for its improvement by scoring ourselves on just four factors: health, [...]

Dedicated to my mother, Janice Stevens, whose birthday was April 16th, ’33. She lived to a well-seasoned 80 and slipped into the ‘next room’ on Dec. 18th, ’14. Death is [...]

Last week, a viral campaign under the hashtag #NoMakeUpSelfie crowded the internet. The trend was created to raise awareness to support breast cancer research. The campaign encouraged girls to [...]

Too many twenty-somethings are driving through the twists and turns of their 20′s with windshields covered in mud, lies, and half-truths. And then we wonder why so many of us have crashed? We [...]

I don’t think I’m alone when I stare at a long list of things to do on my whiteboard and wonder to myself, how in the world am I going to find the motivation to do all of this? This frequent [...]

Our mindfulness practice is not about vanquishing our thoughts. It’s about becoming aware of the process of thinking so that we are not in a trance—lost inside our thoughts. That’s the big [...]

There are many variations of the saying, “the early bird catches the worm” and the common folk knowledge from Benjamin Franklin says that “early to bed and early to rise makes a man happy, [...]

For many years I was a bit of a doormat. If I was treated badly, I would express my unhappiness about it, but would not set clear boundaries around it. So it would happen again and again and [...]

Gabrielle Kassel New York based writer who has a deep affinity for weight-lifting, living mindfully, and the em-dash. She has been published at Women’s Health Magazine where she is part of the [...]