Commentary: Breathe With Me Barbie is target-marketing kids and teaching them that they are required to pay to take care of themselves. And Mattel is not the only business that capitalizes on consumer-based yoga.
Meditation and mindfulness apps like Calm and Headspace have boomed in the last decade, part of the trend of the year that Apple noted in 2018: self-care apps, particularly those focused on mental health.
Roundtable: The living spirit within us today provides for our deepest needs if we seek it and let it through our walls of fear and defensiveness. Tomorrow's crisis isn't yet here; renewal of ourselves is today's job.
Soul Seeing: I have long specialized in catastrophic thinking, often juggling six impossible scenarios before breakfast. Over the years, too many hours spent online further distorted my perception of reality.
Young Voices: I'm usually not good at Lent. Yet this year I fulfilled my goal: praying the rosary almost daily. But by Holy Week's end, I owed this more to determination not to fall short than to any notion that the rosary was enriching my life.
Young Voices: The weather has shifted. October's flaming golds and blues have given way to sullen purples and greys. The air is riddled with unexpected gusts. Dead leaves feel brittle on the pavement or have begun to rot into the earth.
New Year's 2018: As we celebrate, we can take time to reflect on how to usher in 2018 with a fresh commitment to our own well-being. Here are eight meaningful resolutions.