Binge Watching: Can It Actually Benefit Your Mental Health?
What if it turned out binge watching—indulged in moderation— is actually a productive activity with a whole host of surprising benefits?
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Keep Up With Friends and Family During Quarantine With These Fun and Creative Tips
To help you and your loved ones stay healthy and connected we have compiled a list of creative ways to engage with your friends, family and community no matter what challenges are thrown your way.
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Is It Safe to Travel? Creating A COVID-Safe and Anxiety-Free Holiday Season
Problem-solving around COVID safety and how to handle the complexity of family gatherings this challenging holiday season can cause anxiety. It’s normal to feel some stress when it comes to balancing the desire to have family gatherings with staying safe, especially in families where there are disagreements about the safest behavior. Here is our guide to five ways to manage risk and mental health around holiday gatherings this year.
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Holiday Stress: How the Winter Holidays Affect Mental Health
The holiday season can always be a stressful time for many people, even when we are looking forward to that vacation time. Here is our guide to why the winter holiday season often means a time for the winter blues, and what you can do about it.
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Brain Health: Learn the Brain-Boosting Benefits of Crossword Puzzles
When it comes to brain health, we’re all looking for ways to stay sharp. Do crossword puzzles train your brain the way dumbbells train your muscles? There is some research that says struggling to put the right letters in those little boxes can help protect…
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Do I Need Medicare Supplement Insurance? Why the Benefits Usually Outweigh the Cost
If you take excellent care of yourself and rarely visit the doctor except for routine, preventative care, you may be wondering—do I need Medicare Supplement insurance? A Medicare supplement insurance plan helps pay the healthcare costs that original Medicare doesn’t cover, but if you don’t…
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Pain While Driving? Learn a Strength and Mobility Routine for Drivers Ages 65+
Driving is one of the most complex mentally, physically and emotionally challenging activities most of us do on a regular basis. We have created a short workout specially designed to help you regain and improve all of the motions most needed for safe driving.
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Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day: Six Fun Ways to Celebrate
Most of us have been doing a lot of time traveling lately, remembering past days when we could jump on a plane and be somewhere totally different in just a few hours. Or daydreaming about future trips and where we may be able to go in the hopefully not so distant future. Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day takes our memories and fantasies to the next level and gives us a chance to break out of our daily ruts and imagine a totally different reality.
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Healthy Cookies: Seven Hacks for Healthier Holiday Snacks
Happy holiday baking season! This is the time of year when many of us dig out our family recipes, pull out our baking sheets and fire up our mixers. As you likely know, many traditional cookie recipes are brimming with sugar, butter and other less than nutritious ingredients. Happily, you can enjoy your holiday traditions while making cookies that are healthier and made with more whole, unprocessed ingredients.
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This Thanksgiving, Boost Your Mood: 5 Ways to Feel Less Stress
Here are our top five ways to use lifestyle to boost your mood over the Thanksgiving holiday.
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