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Healthy Relationships

A determining factor in our health, recent studies have shown, is how close we feel to our friends and family.

Read our tips below to learn more about how to keep connected whatever the circumstances: whether it’s recovering from a broken heart or simply putting the spice back into your sex life.
Quick Reads
Short on time? Looking for the latest research briefs, news items and topic tidbits? Click below to get started!
How Well Do You Know Your Partner?
Designed by John Gottman, this quiz can help you examine your relationship.
Natural Viagra?
Turns out it’s not called horny goat weed for nothing.
Yoga Rx: Yoga to Spice Up Your Sex Life
Yoga can help bring you closer to your partner.
Killing Yourself With Kindness
Pretending everything’s OK may not be so good for your health.
Safer Sex Aids
Personal lubricants and other “sexual enhancement” products are may be made made with harmful chemicals.
Did You Know?
Studies show that men who engage in more housework report more frequent sex.
How to Take Care of a Caregiver
Take care of a caregiver by offering some caretaking of your own.
Clean Up Your Sex Life
Look for natural ingredients in lubricants to enjoy a healthy sex life.
Web Exclusive—Revive a Flagging Relationship
This exercise will help you explore how being loved allows the window of your heart to open, so that you can experience love as something within you, rather than something that someone hands over to you.
Inner Balance—Rx: Rescue Yourself From the Rut of Relationships
How to rescue yourself from the relationship rut.
Inner Balance—Rekindle your Relationship
When the spark sputters, you can re-ignite the fire of your relationship with a little creativity and a commitment to tend the flame.
Making Love Sustainable: Overcoming the Fear of Rejection
Go beyond the hurts of the past and learn to make love fun again.
Inner Balance—Healthy commitment
It may not always feel like it, but being in a committed relationship enhances your well-being...
Addressing the Big Question
Helping terminally ill patients express the meaning of their lives may relieve the existential and psychological suffering they feel in the face of death.
Friends for Life
Blood may be thicker than water, but an Australian study shows that your friends—more than your relatives—can help you live longer.
Family and Community
Family and community are central to who we are and what we become.
Family and Community Relationships
Life is a set of relationships. When the forces and elements in our minds and bodies are in harmonious relationship with each other...
Boost Your Empathy Quotient
Empathy is an innate attribute, but those who work on improving on the raw material enjoy better relationships...
Three Components of Healthy Relationships
As we embrace relationships, along with the energy we share with our family, friends, coworkers...
Read All About It
This section delves deep into the heart of the matter. Click below to read in-depth investigations, article features, cover stories, and the inspirational journeys of others facing this health challenge.
Make Love Last
Learn the pattern of successful marriages.
Sexual Healing
Sexually transmitted diseases can be helped with natural treatments.
Bringing Sexy Back
Sex with the same partner can lose its luster after you’ve been at it for decades. How do you transform the perfunctory into the passionate?
The Non-Violent Communication Process
Non-violent communication is about arriving at a mutual desire to give from the heart.
Say It Peacefully
Nonviolent communication can turn conflicts into compassion.
Interpreting Miscarriage
No one really talks about miscarriage—especially her own—but keeping mum about it may do more harm than good.
How Do You Mend a Broken Heart?
When a spouse dies, the pain of loss can take a physical toll.
Eat, Taste, Feel
Teaching your kids (and yourself) the ABCs of mindful eating.
Get Rhythm
Unleashing your inner drummer may rock you back to health.
A Family Comes Together
In 1993, I experienced a professional dream come true as I started my own small publishing company.
Inner Balance—Love, Lust & Logic
Go ahead and lose control—as if you had a choice!
Zen and the Art of Friendship Maintenance
Know when to hold on, when to let go, and when to just wait things out.
Love Thy Neighbor, Heal Thyself
The true key to a healthy heart might just begin with directing our attention toward others through generous, altruistic acts.
Home for the Holidays
Tensions running high this holiday season? Learn how to put the joy back in your world during family gatherings.
Baby Stories
Meet three women who beat the odds and got pregnant after trying the most promising alternative infertility treatments: yoga, acupuncture, meditation, relaxation techniques.
Finding Your Emotional Neighborhood
Wish you had a stronger social network? Meet people who have found fresh ways to bolster theirs.
Balancing Act—If Animals Could Talk…
A houseful of cranky pets prompts a call to ananimal communicator.
Old Friends
Old friends really do make the best friends.
Defusing Anger
So mad you could scream? Don’t. There’s a better way. Find out how to blow off steam—without burning your family, your friends, and your health.
Balancing Act—Finding Your Inner Sex Goddess
A midwestern girl delves into the ancient art of tantra and discovers the secret to fabulous sex and renewed energy.
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