Equipment: none Get moving on your fitness journey with these core exercises for beginners, put together by certified Pilates instructor Helen Phelan. She also includes modifications and progressions for each exercise, depending on your level. Equipment: yoga block If you’re looking for a soothing yoga sequence that also targets your core muscles, try these yoga for abs movements. Move through one pose to the next for a complete abs-focused yoga flow....

Read on for a list of common therapeutic approaches, how they work, and how to choose the modality that will best ensure you’ll feel meaningfully seen and heard. “It strives to help clients increase self-reflection and self-examination and thus improve their ability to relate to others, make choices and create a life they would like to live,” Garcia defines. This approach helps those seeking treatment for addictions, personality disorders, self-esteem, anxiety, depression, relationship issues, worthlessness, and schizophrenia....

According to studies, regular coffee consumption can have many benefits, including correlations with lower body fat in women and increased fat burning potential, helping fight type 2 diabetes, and preventing neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s disease. It’s so much a part of our everyday, and has been for so long, that people don’t always stop to think about where their coffee comes from beyond the country on the bag—but coffee has as a complex diaspora as any global culture....

You may be thinking, “I actually enjoy daydreaming, reminiscing, and just letting my mind wander. It’s relaxing for me.” I’m not suggesting that you give up intentional mind-wandering or daydreaming, as when it’s intentional, it actually supports creativity, positive emotions, insight, relaxation, and helps us to better plan for the future. That intention is presence, and it unfolds in a specific way in our everyday lives. It’s not easy to pause and be present for more and more moments....

Today, I haven’t had a drink in almost two years—not a little. Not on occasion. Not at all. Most surprising? I’m happy about it. Here are a few reasons why I no longer drink: So daily drinking snuck up on me. It really started with my career in marketing. It was made clear to me that the networking opportunities at the bar were very important. So I began to drink at work functions and business trips....

When you love another person (whether it’s your partner, a family member or friend), you prioritize thinking about their desires, needs, interests, proclivities and so on, right? This makes sense: we want to make those we love happy; we want to make them feel heard and understood. But loving others doesn’t mean that you can’t love yourself, too. In fact, perhaps we should all try to cultivate more love for ourselves than we do for others....

If something feels off in your relationship, here’s exactly how to change things for the better. Consider it a detox for your relationship, and get ready for a good cleanse. Importantly, you should be trying to look at your core relationship challenges and irksome dynamics without judgment or blame. One way to do this is by stepping outside yourself to imagine that you are an objective researcher conducting an honest evaluation....