Highlighting summer's enhanced opportunities for healthy behavior has become a tradition for this column. In keeping with tradition, here is my annual installment – one that zeroes in on the core ...

You know that person, the one that always challenges your self-control? It might be a colleague you see occasionally at meetings, a friend of a friend, or a relative you only see at holidays. That ...

Physical and emotional wellness and balanced living—not depriving yourself of the things you want but, at the same time, not overindulging—are goals most people strive for but sometimes have ...

Tampa (BLOOM) – We’ve all heard the phrase “self-care” before, but what does it really mean? At its core, self-care is about taking intentional actions to prioritize our physical, mental, and ...

Losing weight is extremely difficult because high-calorie, delicious food is very accessible. Despite best intentions, it’s common to wind up overeating. These setbacks can be frustrating and ...

Ramadan is often described as a month of worship, gratitude, and community. But at the level of human psychology, it is also something very concrete: a st ...

You can talk about self-control as the capacity to override impulses, resist temptations, and overturn dominant responses, to advance long-term over short-term goals, and to develop efficient, ...

Among the central purposes of Ramadan is the cultivation of taqwa, often translated as God-consciousness, moral awareness or self-control. The Qur'an presents fasting as a means through which ...

Jocelyn Solis-Moreira is a New York-based science journalist whose work has appeared in Health, Live Science, and Discover Magazine, among other publications. She holds a master's degree in psychology ...

“I remember very well my years as a principal,” said Principal Ross in an informal conversation. “It felt like a 24-hour-a-day job.” He continued: I was the first one to arrive at 6 a.m.—leaving the ...