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The same way many of us transition some of our basic clothing items like t-shirts, jeans, and jewelry from season to season, we can apply this same concept to some of our beloved warm-weather hairstyles. Below, we’re showing you how you can “autumnize” your hairstyles from last season. Read on for our top transitional hair trends for the fall season: ** 1. The summer braid becomes the fall plait. During the summer, it was all about braids that felt appropriate for a music festival or outdoor BBQ....

This half-updo is both a stylish and practical day-to-night look (especially in muggier weather!), and with the beehive also being a buzzy micro-trend we’re loving this season, it just makes this hairstyle a clear yes all around. ** A quick background on the beehive: We first enjoyed this iconic look back when it initially shot to popularity in the 1960s. A definitive hairstyle of the mod era, it was a look created by a Chicago hairstylist as one best representative of the coming decade, as well as something that didn’t leave her with hat hair....

Conflict among colleagues is inevitable, and—left unheeded—associated with significant stress, health problems (both mental and physical), and poor productivity. Researchers set out to explore the role of forgiveness in ameliorating these negative impacts. The participants—more than 200 employees working in office jobs in Washington, DC, or manufacturing jobs in the Midwest—responded to questionnaires about their levels of forgiveness, productivity, and well-being. The first survey asked respondents to focus on a specific offense, and how they believed it affected them....

Because we love a story. It can neatly organize the chaotic, impermanent mishmash of life into a coherent arc. There’s a beauty to storytelling that goes back to cave painting, bards singing epics to rapt listeners huddled around a fire, and sacred books with their fantastical cosmologies. They enrich life, and can be a great source of healing and insight, when they help to open our eyes to something we had not seen or understood....

Climbing can be really slow. There are moments when you’re just holding on. Maybe your arms are really tired, so you’re holding on with one hand while you shake the other one out. At the same time, you’re looking up and thinking, where am I going to go next? A little to the left, a little to the right? If it’s a climb you haven’t done before, you learn as you go....