Ilana Nankin loved being a pre-K teacher, but she and her colleagues often felt stressed by their jobs. So when Nankin noticed a fellow teacher “looking absolutely blissed-out,” she tagged along to ...

Mindfulness, I'm sure you've at least heard the phrase before. But what is mindfulness? Mindfulness is essentially just another word for meditation or being in the moment. Other WRAL Top Stories ...

Sarah Hays Coomer is a Mayo Clinic and National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach, certified personal trainer and author based in Nashville, Tennessee. She has spent nearly 20 years helping ...

Mindfulness is not the same as meditation. There are many meditation techniques. Mindfulness meditation is one of them. Because it’s done in a structured setting, it can improve your mindfulness ...

We want to learn more about how Times readers give thanks. By Christina Caron Do you have a daily or weekly ritual to give thanks for the good things in your life? Research suggests that “counting one ...

Assertiveness is a skill that many of us have to train ourselves to master. After all, it can be uncomfortable to set boundaries or even just speak up for what we know is right. So how do you practice ...

How do you practice spirituality in your life? Poet Mary Oliver captures the essence of spirituality in just 12 words: "Listen — are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?" In the line ...

Welcome to Shaving Strokes, a GOLF.com series in which we’re sharing improvements, learnings and takeaways from amateur golfers just like you — including some of the speed bumps and challenges they ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What is “interleaving,” and how do you practice it in the classroom? The teaching and learning strategy of interleaving has been gaining more and more attention from ...

“Positive parenting” is currently a buzzword that is commonly used to describe parenting practices. Yet, what exactly does this term mean? Does research find positive parenting to be effective? And ...

Tennis players of a certain age might remember hearing tall tales about the practice habits of legendary grinders like Bjorn Borg and Mary Joe Fernandez. “I heard Borg spends one week hitting ...