Harnessing Our Epigenetic Landscape
Strike the perfect balance between food therapy, nutraceuticals, mediation and cellular movement... and then biohack your way to a healthier and happier 2017 you.
Why Surrendering is Not Giving Up
Surrendering is tough for all of us but as one writer explains, learning to wave your little white flag of emotion every once and awhile makes life a whole lot easier.
Change the Way You THINX About Periods
You’ve read about their game-changing underpants everywhere, swooned over their chic AF marketing campaign, and one of your friends is begging you to try their cycle set undies (and rightly so). Now, meet the twin sisters who just dropped the mic on the feminine hygiene category, pretty much transforming periods FOREVER.
A New Perspective on Immediacy
You just left work. You’re ordering your Pad Thai on GrubHub from your Uber. You’ve timed it perfectly so that as you arrive at your doorstep, so too will your dinner. But what are the long-term impacts of our ‘want it now’ culture?
The Diffusion of Responsibility
Yes, your best friend doesn’t recycle her plastic water bottles. And your uber rich uncle hasn’t donated a single dime to charity. But here’s why in our bid to save the world, pointing the finger doesn’t help anybody.
Do Small Things with Great Love
Love makes the world go 'round. Here’s how you can add a little more love to every moment.
Victory is a Journey; A Modern Kaizen Approach
By making small improvements daily you can tweak your way to a happier life through the Japanese practice of Kaizen.
Overindulging or Undernourished?
Our resident health expert shares her Holiday Toolkit to ensure your Thanksgiving is a healthy and happy one. From adaptogens that help you lower adrenals (family drama anyone?) to nutritional tips and the importance of keeping those pesky blood sugar levels in balance.
Home for the Holidays
One writer discovers there’s nothing like being home with your family to remind you that your journey to enlightenment... is not over yet. Family can bring out the best (and the worst) in us, and at Thanksgiving it’s not just the potatoes boiling away in the pressure cooker. Check out these seven tips to help you avoid an explosion.
Managing Your Magnetism as a Self-Help Practitioner
Are you a yogi, healer, or nutritionist? Or maybe your social group’s go-to-girl? All of us are self-help practitioners in some way. Oftentimes we find people unintentionally draining our energy or find ourselves investing too much in other people’s problems. Christine Dionese offers simple tips to help ward off energy vampires by setting boundaries with clients, friends, and yourself.
Discover Your Soul’s Resonance
Enlightenment isn’t an end goal. And it isn’t only found in a six-week meditation retreat. It can happen anywhere: on your sketch pad, in downward dog, or even a movie theatre. Discover the tools to help you feel truly alive in every moment.
Shoshin: Wake Up Your Beginner’s Mind
In the Zen practice of Shoshin being an expert at something is counterintuitive. The more you know, the less you try to learn. Tap into your beginner’s mind with these five steps.
Expect Everything, Get Nothing
We all know how hard it is not to let your imagination run away with you when something or someone good comes into your life. We’ve all been guilty of post-first date thoughts like, “Will our future kids have my nose or his?” While we’re totally aware it may not last forever, it’s fun to get caught up in the excitement of the new. But as Michelle Lipper warns, too much expectation can quickly lead to bitter disappointment. Here’s how to avoid it.
We Need to Talk About Guns
If the issue of gun control in this country causes you to weep, makes you furious, and leaves you frightened, then go on and invite those feelings in! Because those feelings transform into the thing that makes you speak up at the next dinner party, makes you vote, makes you petition, and ultimately becomes the one that makes a difference.
The Rage Trigger
Everyone has their own Incredible Hulk. Yep, even your yogi friend that just got rear-ended by that douche in the Porsche and responded with an incomprehensibly calm “Namaste.” We all feel anger, injustice, fury… and we all have different catalysts. Here, Bristol Baughan shares her rage triggers and what she does with them.
Intuitive Alchemy
Gut feelings-- sometimes they’re so on point it’s spooky. Our integrative health specialist has three ways to help you hone your intuition.
Harness that Heartbreak for Good
Consider this article your break-up survival guide. One that doesn’t include cheesy stereotypes involving ice cream from the tub, drinking alone, or Sex and the City reruns.
Forget Niche Dating Apps; Dating Takes Time
You’ve got your checklist of requirements for future BAE, entered it into your preferred dating app, and now you’re sitting back and praying for those three little words, “It’s a match.” But are niche dating apps preventing us from finding love in unexpected places and people?
Tired of Being Busy?
Overworked and need to slow down? You don’t need to go cold turkey. Learn how to un-busy yourself one hour at a time.
LA’s DEN Speaks in Meditation
Modern life is busy af. Your spirit will thank you for the DEN, a mediation center in LA that works with everyone’s schedule.