While it may be difficult to practice gratitude if you have depression, it may help reduce symptoms. Practicing gratitude has other health benefits, such as increasing optimism and improving sleep ...

You’re in a meeting when your boss suggests changing a number to make the quarterly report look stronger. Heads nod. The slides move on. You feel a knot in your stomach: Do you speak up and risk being ...

Alena is a professional writer, editor and manager with a lifelong passion for helping others live well. She is also a registered yoga teacher (RYT-200) and a functional medicine certified health ...

Blumberg is a contributor for TIME. Blumberg is a contributor for TIME. Ilana Nankin loved being a pre-K teacher, but she and her colleagues often felt stressed by their jobs. So when Nankin noticed a ...

In Buddhism, the loving-kindness practice, also called metta, consists of sending/intending love and happiness to ourselves and others. Metta is a Pali word meaning goodwill, friendliness, or ...

Forgiveness occurs when, following harm, we transcend impulses to strike back and instead work to alleviate our own anger, and even offer benevolence to the person who harmed us. The person working to ...

Defiance isn’t about being difficult. It’s about being principled. It’s not about conflict. It’s about alignment. And when modeled well by those in positions of power, it has a ripple effect, making ...