A Graceful Exit: Taking Charge at the End of Life
How can we break the silence about what happens when we鈥檙e dying?
Health care
Why 30 Minutes of Nature a Day Is So Good for Your Health
Science is showing how immersion in nature speeds healing and acts as an antidote for many ailments.
What Is Mud鈥檚 Dirty Little Secret?
For thousands of years, it鈥檚 been wallowed in and slathered on for both medicine and beauty. Science says it works.
For Cookbook Author, Food Is an Ally Against Dementia
She can鈥檛 remember recipes, and food doesn鈥檛 taste the same, but Paula Wolfert believes that what she eats is key to helping her slow her cognitive decline.
The Instagram Community That鈥檚 Decolonizing Fitness
Here鈥檚 where to find a safe space for queer and trans people to get fit or stay healthy.
These Performers Literally Play for Their Lives
O+ Festival was created to address the lack of affordable medical care for a chronically underinsured population: artists and musicians.
Kids in the Classroom Can Help Single Moms Rise from Poverty
Educators across the country are adopting a policy to allow children in classes, and allowing more student parents to stay in school.
5 Easy Steps to Taking a Tech Break
How to turn off your devices and party like it鈥檚 1982.
The Ways We Are Healed by Nature (Even Houseplants)
Green growing things heal us in surprising ways. Communities are trying to bring plant life to areas that lack it.
Making Healthy Habits Accessible for Every Body
These safe spaces offer fitness for people of color and queer folks, the big-bodied and fat-identified, the low-income and differently abled.
Where Children Discover the Healing Power of Animals
In this sanctuary, at-risk kids begin to understand the parallels between their lives and the lives of injured wild animals.
7 Strategies to Turn Trauma Into Strength
Survivors discover surprising benefits in the process of healing from a traumatic event.
If They Die of an Overdose, Drug Users Have a Last Request
Thousands of drug users across the country signed their names to a sort of last will and testament, requesting that prosecutors not file homicide charges against their loved ones.
Why Childbirth and Abortion Are Not Separate Issues
While we debate abortion, women are dying in childbirth.
Why We Need to Stop Saying 鈥淢an Up鈥�
This outdated, gender-specific, and illogical phrase is disrespectful and avoids the real issue.
The Surprising Links Between Your Mental Health and Everyone Else鈥檚
Why are anxiety and depression on the rise? Our environments have changed. Our food. Our stress. Our relationships鈥攐ur 鈥渓ost connections.鈥�
Standing Rock Medic Bus Is Now a Traveling Decolonized Pharmacy
These Native herbalists are doing more than just healing sore muscles.
How Roe v. Wade Changed Motherhood and Marriage
Two generations later, more women are postponing marriage, graduating college, and entering the paid labor force.
Why Mister Rogers鈥� Message of Love Is Good for Your Health
Evidence has mounted that he was on to something鈥攑eople who express love and kindness really do regularly lead healthier lives.
Barbara Ehrenreich: Why I鈥檓 Giving Up on Preventive Care
How contemporary American medicine is testing us to death.
Why Are We So Sleep Deprived, And Why Does It Matter?
Not many things matter more to our health than a good night鈥檚 sleep, but fewer and fewer of Americans are getting one.
Mothers Dying After Childbirth Is a Medical Issue鈥擝ut Cultural, Too
Even as the U.S. rate of infant mortality has decreased, the rate of maternal mortality has increased. Here鈥檚 what male-dominated medicine has to do with it.
What Everyone Gets Wrong About Lonely People
Those trying to cure a loneliness epidemic by bringing people physically closer to their neighbors are oversimplifying its modern meaning.
Nature Is So Good for You That Even Watching It on TV Improves Well-Being
Watching a few minutes of 鈥淧lanet Earth鈥� can lead you to feel 46 percent more awe and 31 percent more gratitude.
New Study Links Living Near Forests to Healthier Brains
Evidence keeps mounting that, in stressful times, there is much to gain by surrounding yourself with plants and trees.
Help Fund Powerful Stories to Light the Way Forward
Donate to YES! today.