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** If you’re going for a shaved look then it’s crucial your scalp is treated well and doesn’t flake throughout the day. No one wants to deal with dandruff! If your strands are shorter it’ll be much easier to see. Take care of this style by using a highly moisturizing shampoo and conditioner duo. We highly recommend Dove Dermacare Scalp Soothing Moisture Anti-Dandruff Shampoo and Conditioner. This hair wash team works to moisturize your scalp and prevent flakes while also reintroducing key nutrients to your strands and skin....

MBCT’s credibility rests firmly on ongoing research. Two randomized clinical trials (published in 2000 and 2008 in The Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology) laid the foundation, indicating MBCT reduces rates of depression relapse by 50% among patients who suffer from recurrent depression. Recent findings published in The Lancet in 2015 revealed that combining a tapering off of medication with MBCT is as effective as an ongoing maintenance dosage of medication....

In exploring the ways that we can direct compassion to others, what better way than to consider children. Endeavoring to raise an empathic child who is attentive to others helps build a better community and counters the “me” culture that is so prevalent today. Further, considering how to make the children in our lives better people helps us reflect on how we ourselves can be more compassionate. Michelle Borba is an educational psychologist and expert in parenting, bullying, and empathy, and author of many books on character development in children, the most recent being UnSelfie: why empathic kids succeed in our all-about-me world (Simon & Schuster, 2016)....

Most of what we know about shaping a happy life is from asking people to remember the past, however, hindsight is anything but 20/20. We forget some of life’s key lessons in the vast number of memories we might have acquired throughout the years. To combat this, Harvard University ran the longest study of adult life that’s ever been done. The Harvard Study of Adult Development tracked the lives of 724 men for more than 75 years, asking about their work, their home lives, and their health....

Let’s face it. Sometimes, despite the hours logged on the cushion, despite the meditation retreats, and certainly despite our best intentions, we don’t handle relationship conflict well. I’ve written a lot about how mindfulness makes us better lovers. But can it make us better “fighters”? The short answer is yes. Mindfulness practice can help us fight fair, and fighting fair predicts relationship success. Marriage research tells us that even healthy couples argue, sometimes with plenty of negative emotion and yelling....