Here are this weekend's reading diversions for your personal enlightenment. Have a great (long?) end-of-March break weekend!
How to Solve Really Big Problems
War, disease, famine, your checking account. Sometimes big problems can seem so overwhelming that you don't know where to start. It feels like trying to dig a hole to China. With a spoon. But what if instead of feeling like you had to solve the whole problem, you could just solve one part of it?
How to Talk to Your Kids About Food and Weight
In this culture of severely distorted eating and body image, getting the best of one's kids is going to mean trying over and again to listen, to pay attention and to talk.
A Smart (and Easy!) Way to Curb Emotional Eating
It all comes down to a simple trick—charting your weight. Every woman has a story line about her weight that she carries in her head: "I was always the fat kid." "I couldn't lose the pregnancy weight." "I liked my body until I hit menopause." In fact, the story you tell about your weight shapes your relationship to your body as much as the weight itself. But what if you're telling yourself the wrong story?
THE HIDDEN HEALTH BENEFITS OF ANGER, NEGATIVITY AND CURSING
Blow off some stream! What you think of as your worst qualities can have some surprising upsides.
Time stretches if you keep busy
PEOPLE with busy lives don't necessarily live longer, but they might feel as if they do. Our brains use the world around us to keep track of time, and the more there is going on, the slower time feels.
Bye, Bye, 7-Year Itch: The New Hardest Relationship Year
While in Marilyn Monroe's day there was "The Seven Year Itch," these days, a survey of 2,000 adults in long-term relationships reveals that the warm and fuzzy begins to fall flat after three years.
Why Are Hospitals the Worst Place to Be When You are Sick?
Serving as primary caregiver to my mother during the last six months of her life was my first prolonged and intimate encounter with the healthcare system. I was shocked and deeply disturbed to discover the many ways that our healthcare system dishonors, alienates and harms our loved ones entrusted to...
A dinner guest had a fabulous theory for testing out whether a city is generally friendly or not: "You can tell by whether or not other girls talk to you while you wait in line for the restroom." I love this. It's a brilliant barometer.
An Easy Trick for Better Sleep
Most of us grew up listening to our parents tell us to straighten our room and make the bed. I'm sure I am not the only one who wondered why it was so important to make the bed, especially because it was just going to be unmade again that night! To be honest, some of us may still feel that way.
