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Think You Are Sick? It May Be the Nocebo Effect.
Have you ever walked out of a jam-packed concert or restaurant with a scratchy throat, worried that you just caught a virus? Or swallowed a medication and felt immediately unwell? If yes, you’re personally familiar
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How to Break the Cycle of ‘Sameness’ and Push Yourself in Midlife
1. Find your “will to live.” 2. Keep asking THE question: What is something challenging you’ve always wanted to try or be, but now worry you’re too old to do? 3. Stop believing your competencies
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5 Ways to Make Friends (Without Joining a Book Club)
To meet your neighbors, try doing them small kindnesses, said Julianne Holt-Lunstad, a professor of psychology and neuroscience and the director of the Social Connection and Health Lab at Brigham Young University. Compliment their gardening
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Confidence Is Key to Well-being. Here Are 5 Ways to Boost Yours
Everyone has encountered them: people who always appear to know what they are doing. They gladly take control of a situation, express their opinions as if they were established facts or plunge into a project
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Unhappy at Work? How to Plan Your Next Move
To find a job you actually enjoy, figure out what’s making you unhappy and move forward from there, says Tessa West, author of the new book Job Therapy: Finding Work That Works for You. West offers
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Social Prescribing: Why Purpose Is Good for Your Health
In a bid to improve health and wellbeing, social prescriptions can cover everything from volunteering and art classes to support with household bills. But do they really work? … Perhaps counterintuitively, prescribing “service” is proving
