Breathing is one of the simplest and most powerful tools for managing stress. Slow, deep breathing activates the parasympathetic nervous system—the body's "rest and digest" mode—which counteracts the ...

For many women, staying calm isn’t an instinct or a personality trait. It’s a skill honed over a lifetime, cultivated in the countless moments when authority feels unpredictable and safety feels ...

Parenting coach and toddler expert Devon Kuntzman shares her best advice for how to manage public trantrums.

Self-compassion helps leaders regulate stress, stay present in hard moments, and model emotional steadiness for their ...

Over the past two decades, the concept of mindfulness has become hugely popular around the world. An increasingly ubiquitous ...

Psychologists have worked with clients for decades in an attempt to help overly anxious people learn to calm down. It was believed that to reduce stress, the body’s “relaxation response” had to kick ...

COVID’s economic stresses and medical fears, the increased racial tensions, atop an ever faster, more demanding modern life would tax even a cud-chewing cow. Indeed, even some of my calm clients and ...