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Decoding Self-Forgiveness: Learn Why It’s So Difficult and Get a Psychologist’s Advice for Releasing Shame

You might be doing the dishes, taking a shower, or walking the dog when it happens: Seemingly out of nowhere, your mind circles back to those old, deep-seated feelings of shame about a time you wronged someone or felt intense embarrassment, even though you thought you’d moved on. You may even get frustrated with yourself […]

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A Bittersweet Challenge: Tips for Cutting Back on Added Sugar (and 5 Healthy Treats to Enjoy When You Do)

A decadent chocolate cake drizzled with caramel, a pint of mint chocolate chip Haagen-Dazs, and a crisp can of Coke. No, we aren’t listing the items from someone’s last meal request, but you wouldn’t be surprised if we were, right?  Humans love sugar — so much so that we add it to a huge array

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Being Organized Among Personality Traits That May Help You Live Longer, New Study Finds

We previously covered that gender equality may help increase longevity for both men and women — but while society continues making progress toward this systemic change, a new study has revealed how your individual personality could also impact your lifespan. Publishing their findings in the Journal of Psychosomatic Research, researchers searched for links between longevity

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How Bruce Willis and Wife Emma Are Helping Raise Dementia Awareness Amid the Actor’s Diagnosis

“Loud voice, fun stories, just always laughing and smiling” is how Lisa Ihnat-Durbin described her husband, Sean Durbin — but that changed when he was diagnosed with a form of frontotemporal dementia: a group of brain disorders that impact language, behavior, and comprehension. “I noticed at times I couldn’t quite get my words out,” Sean, 58, said in a video shared by the Cleveland Clinic, adding, “That’s when I first noticed it, that I was struggling.”

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Walking Your Way to Health: Why It’s an “Overlooked Superpower” — Plus 4 Challenges to Try

Between all the fitness apparel, classes, and equipment options at our fingertips, figuring out the best way to exercise can feel like solving a Rubik’s Cube. But there’s no need to twist yourself into knots to find a good workout. One of the easiest paths forward is free, accessible, and allows you to both chat

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Is Stress Good for You? An Expert Breaks Down 3 Different Types — And How to Manage Them

Imagine that your wedding is coming up in a week, or that you’ve missed a deadline at work for the third time in a row. How would you feel? We’d bet that stress would be part of the equation, but we’d also imagine that the specific type and intensity of that stress would be quite

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Did You Know You Can Donate Your Old Pacemaker to a Dog?

Around 3 million Americans live with cardiac pacemakers: small, implanted devices that regulate slow heart rates by delivering electrical pulses to the organ. In use since the late 1950s, they can significantly improve quality of life — not just for humans, but for canines, too.  Like us, dogs can experience slower-than-normal heart rates, or bradycardia,

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Why Stretching Is Underrated — Plus 4 Exercises a Master Flexologist Recommends Doing Daily

It’s easy to think of stretching as merely a pre- or post-workout ritual. After all, it’s said to lengthen our muscles and loosen up our joints, which can help prevent exercise-related injuries. But stretching is such a boon for your body that it shouldn’t be limited to your weekly kickboxing class. Just a few minutes

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Crack Those Shells: Study Says Eggs May Actually Reduce Cholesterol, Not Raise It

Despite all the protein, vitamins, and minerals that eggs dish out, they feature one potential thorn in an otherwise rosy nutritional profile: They’re famously high in cholesterol, leading some 20th-century researchers to suggest that they could raise your cholesterol and contribute to heart disease. However, a new study out of Australia may have flipped the

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