How to Create a Quick & Easy Holiday Party Hairstyle Loved this holiday hair challenge? Check out even more tutorials from our Style It On Series. Editor’s note: If you want to add a bit of shine to your style, don’t be afraid to use some hair oil, like Suave Professionals Moroccan Infusion Styling Oil.

Top 4 Summer Hair Protection Tips Read on for our top summer hair protection tips: 1. Protect hair with a bandana. This is one of our summer go-to accessories as it adds a fun element to any outfit. Besides that, a bandana is a great way to protect your hair from the sun, the same way a hat would. You can also use it as a headband on super-hot days to help soak up all the sweat you’ll produce....

Family Summer Reading Challenge This summer, challenge your family to complete a certain number of books. You can challenge each other or make it a cooperative goal. Click on the category that you need to jump straight to that list. Fiction Summer Reading Nonfiction Summer Reads YOUNG ADULT Summer Reads Summer Reading for KIDS Summer Reading for TODDLERS As you read, your mind expands, and that knowledge is yours forever!...

Opt for a Straightening Shampoo For a lot of us, the shower is a sacred and transformative place. The shower often stands as the main form of separation between a long day of working and checking items off our to-do lists and the promise of our warm and cozy beds and a good book. It goes without saying that the products we use in the shower should be a cultivated and intentional collection....

You might feel better if you hold the gory details. Christine Carter, sociologist and author of The Sweet Spot: How to Find Your Groove at Home and at Work, spoke at Wisdom 2.0 last spring about how busyness has become a badge of honor in our culture. “When we are busy, it’s what researchers call cognitive overload. Cognitive overload is one of those things that hinders our productivity and hinders the power of our mind....

However, with platinum bleach blonde locks being a popular hair color (and not to mention bleached hair being the “It” color to have these days), some of us go to any colorist we can find or even take matters into our own hands to achieve the perfect shade of icy blonde hair without following up with the proper care. Deep Conditioner for Bleached Hair: How to Use It While we are all for the lighter hair hues, caring for it is a challenging part of having bleached hair....

15 of the Best Haircuts for Thick Hair 1. Thinned Out One easy way to make thick hair more manageable is to opt for a layered haircut that involves thinning out the bottoms of your strands. Your stylist will use thinning shears to thin out your hair and make it a whole lot more manageable. 2. Messy Texture Soft and subtle layers on the lower sections of your hair will make your overall head of hair more manageable....

When it comes to combatting brassiness, all you really need is a quality purple shampoo. However, you can’t look for a shampoo that just decreases brass because then you’ll be also searching for products that will do things that combat all the other issues that come with coloring hair, (hey, frizz and lack of shine!). If you’re going to invest in a quality poo look for the best purple shampoo on the market....

In Mindfulness for Dummies, Shamash Alidina describes the body scan as a way to get in touch with the body, let go of feelings of needing to get stuff done, and release pent-up emotions. Just like other forms of meditation, the body scan also trains attention. Alidina says: The body scan alternates between a wide and narrow focus of attention; from focusing on your little toe all the way through the entire body....

So how do we reset ourselves and our dysregulated nervous systems when we’re emotionally overwhelmed? When I’m talking to kids or teens, I often use this reset button metaphor as well. And where is the human reset button? It’s hidden at the bottom of our lungs, so we have to breathe deeply and slowly enough to press it and restart our nervous systems. The Breath is Your Superpower You can probably tell when you, or the people around you, are dysregulated emotionally just by listening to the rate and rhythm of the breath....

Underlying this problem is a linear economic model that mindlessly extracts, processes, uses and then discards resources. When a forest or field is used up, the economic machine moves on and leaves garbage behind. On a planet of finite resources, this is not an effective long-term strategy. The issue of whether to measure well-being in a system that undermines ecological viability is an exercise of rearranging the Titanic’s deck chairs....

There’s nothing inherently bad or good about technology. Technology just is. How we relate to it and what we do with it are what matters. But our phones are not designed to be neutral, they are created to keep us hooked with texting, shopping, and sharing data with marketers, corporations, and even government agencies…oh, and our friends and family, too. I’ve heard it said that a thinking mind can be our most powerful servant or our most terrible master....

A Conference For Moms By Moms Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. To learn more about ’em, click here. If you’re a mom {or soon-to-be mom}, pull out your calendar and mark these dates RIGHT NOW! And then make sure to pass the word along to all your mom friends. {Because we mamas have got to stick together!} WHEN IS THE MOM CONFERENCE? October 17th, 18th, and 19th, 2017! Got it on the calendar?...

2) THE POWER OF OFF The Mindful Way to Stay Sane in a Virtual World Nancy Colier (Sounds True) Having a universal communicator, satellite- driven locator, and encyclopedia of all knowledge everpresent at our fingertips is making us a bit crazy, and, according to Colier, a bit unkind. As a therapist she’s seen how a “techedout mind” can make you unhappy. Her stories—warm, sad, and funny—make you examine what “convenience” really means....

Of course, there are always factors beyond our control: horrible bosses, difficult coworkers, poorly organized workplaces. But in a slow economy, leaving may not always be an option. “I think many people are feeling a lack of choice right now,” says Jeremy Hunter, who teaches in the MBA program at the Peter F. Drucker School of Management in Claremont, California. “Add to that, we’re living with the fallout of years of downsizing....

More: Scientific Mindfulness Baywood Publishing Company (Abstract)

Get the Look: Soft Hair Waves Want to try out more wavy hairstyles? Check out our crimped hair tutorial.

That’s why psychiatrist Judson Brewer’s new book Unwinding Anxiety is so refreshing. Yes, it has some tips—but they don’t come until much later in the book. In fact, his whole point is that tips alone won’t help those of us who struggle with anxiety. Brewer shows how anxiety exists inside the habits that make up our everyday lives, and habits are sticky. They won’t go away just because we tell ourselves to breathe—because, as crazy as it sounds when talking about anxiety, our brain is attracted to these habits because they create some sense of reward....

Here is a quick snapshot of my email to James: The possibilities of what to write for this sweet little note are endless. You could include a little description of how many days you have enjoyed wedded bliss. Or, perhaps a couple lines from the lyrics of your first dance as husband and wife. Can you imagine the smile across your hubby’s face when he opens up this message? Cheers to a quick and easy way to remind him of sweet memories!...