When a storm dropped a 120-foot tree on my friend Hannah’s house—the dream home she had owned for just a few months—she felt upset, to say the least. She tried all the usual ways to compose herself, ...

When it comes to weathering an emergency, understanding how to stay calm can help build resilience and keep your mental health and happiness levels at an optimum. People who stay calm in an emergency ...

Mindfulness meditation is incredibly helpful for millions of people, but enduring problems may also require a compassion-based approach, like internal family systems.

Simple practices that soothe your mind when meditation just isn’t cutting it. My most recent attempt at meditating was pretty embarrassing. I downloaded an app that my friend swears by and had planned ...

This trick from a child’s playbook works for adults, too. We pull out all the stops for our kids to keep them mentally and physically well, like limiting screen time, filling a plate with colorful ...

It can be extremely difficult to stay calm during arguments, but people who do so naturally usually have quiet habits that ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Nerves are a natural phenomenon for athletes. I always was a nervous Nellie getting ready to step up on ...