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For some, the inner critic is a specific voice from the past—your mother, your aunt, a child, the boss who fired you. My friend Joseph Goldstein still remembers the first-grade teacher who gave him a big red F in cutting and pasting. (This was in the days when you mixed flour and water to make paste, and Joseph’s work was apparently very messy.) A friend or stranger may make an offhand remark that we take so deeply into our bodies and minds that they become part of our identities....

I know that I am not the only one with this difficulty; work-life balance is really tough for many people. I think it’s time we start a conversation about balance, precisely because it is so hard for so many of us to find, and it is so integral to enhancing well-being. Below, based on my experiences, I illuminate four risk factors for poor work-life balance and eventual burnout. The 4 Risk Factors for Burnout 1....

Below, we’re giving you some tips on how you can keep your summer highlights damage free during the summer season. ** 1. Wear a hat. Ladies, your sun hat does more than protect your skin from the sun. Use a stylish wide brim hat to also minimize the amount of sun exposure on your color treated hair. 2. Don’t skip on hair trims. Summer is all about having fun and exploring the great outdoors, most of us tend to put our priorities to the side....

Although our enterprising ancestors took to the use of clay powder and starch to deodorize their wigs in the 1700s—giving birth to the first-generation dry shampoos—it regained popularity in the 1940s when women started looking for ways to refresh their elaborate hairstyles without ruining them with water. Then came the matte-everything trend of the 1990s, where clever girls and guys took to sprinkling baby powder directly on their crowns to revive and punkify locks without that freshly-rinsed sheen....

As the founding director of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Kabat-Zinn has been a strong supporter of mindfulness initiatives like Mindful Schools, a program that offers a mindfulness curriculum to U.S. schools. (You can watch a video of how Mindful Schools teaches children mindful walking, eating, and movement here.) One of the challenges that children face today, says Kabat-Zinn, is constant distraction in the form of technological stimuli like texts, email, and Facebook....