Jennifer King Lindley

It’s the thoroughly modern way to exit someone’s life, but it can still hurt like heck. Here’s how to deal with a ghost—and how to avoid becoming one yourself.
Ghosts (no, we’re not talking about those who’ve gone beyond the grave) move silently among us, but they make their presence known just the same. The unreturned texts. The promising interview that results in radio silence. A close friend who suddenly drops off the face of the earth. When confronted by sticky situations and awkward endi...

The 2020 allergy season will be “brutal,” AccuWeather meteorologists predict, and the misery is well underway across much of the country. Indeed, Clifford Bassett, MD, founder and medical director of Allergy and Asthma Care of New York, says we are in the midst of an “allergy explosion.” “I’m seeing more and more first-time sufferers of all ages,” he says. And according to Melanie Carver, vice president of Community Health at the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA), which tracks s...

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Here's how to heal and grow from life's toughest moments.
There’s no sugarcoating it: Sometimes life hurts.
Losses, heartbreaks, setbacks of all kinds can rock us to the core. “Feeling bad after your life is upended is totally normal,” says Sarah Lowe, PhD, assistant professor of social and behavioral sciences at the Yale School of Public Health. “But humans are also programmed to be resilient—to grow and learn from even difficult things.”
Psychologists are increasingly studying the possibili...

Good friends, family, a home, the kindness of others: These are the things we give thanks for before diving into the turkey—or at least after everyone’s gone home and the dishes are done and we can also be grateful for a coffee table to put our feet on. We know, inherently, that it’s a good thing to take stock of and appreciate what’s going right in our world—and now scientists are saying that doing so can boost our physical health as much as it can our mental state or relationships.
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A look at the new trend of culinary medicine with expert advice on how to cook and eat healthier in your own kitchen.

Joints—we take them for granted unless something goes wrong. And new research shows more of us than ever can expect to feel creaky: One of the most common causes of joint pain, arthritis, affects us in much higher numbers and at an earlier age than previously thought. Close to one-third (31%) of women ages 18 to 64 suffer from its chronic aches or stiffness. The percentages climb to well above half for those over 65.

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Year-end deadlines loom. Your knee is doing that weird thing again. And you have a 15-pound turkey to brine, stat. Stress, from sources big and small, can make you want to hole up in a Himalayan salt cave. But a growing number of mental-health experts recommend adopting a surprising and much more sustainable attitude: Bring it on.
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“There’s no such thing as a problem-free life,” says Melanie Greenberg, Ph.D., autho...

Learning you have an illness is difficult enough—but then you have to grapple with what to do with that information. Here, experts and those who have been through it share the crucial next steps—and some comfort, in the process.
It may start with a nagging symptom, a troubling scan, or a phone call. In an instant, your life seems to split into before and after. We all hope it will never happen to us, but odds are you or someone close to you will have to navigate this traumatic terrain at some...

In a world of 24/7 news, keeping up with the latest advice about children’s health and development can be overwhelming. (Let’s face it; some days it’s a win just to make time to floss.) Plus, it’s impossible to decide which study du jour to trust: Should you give your kids vitamins? Yes. No. Maybe. Repeat.
To keep you from falling down a rabbit hole, we asked leading pediatricians and medical-journal editors to share the recent studies that savvy parents should have on their radar. Of course,...

Resilience—not letting setbacks destroy you, learning from them, trying again—is one of life’s great skills. This is how you teach it.
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Allow your kids the chance to (deep breath) fail naturally. Start young, when the stakes are low: Let your 3-year-old lose to you at Candy Land, suggests Stephanie O’Leary, PsyD, a clinical psychol...

We naturally think of our own lives as stories, psychologists say. Changing the way you tell yours can help you handle whatever plot twists come your way.
Humans are transfixed by stories. We freeze—popcorn handful in midair—when the movie hero finally comes face-to-face with the villain. We stay up way too late to see how a potboiler ends even though we’re too grown-up to hide a flashlight under the covers. We get lost in the experiences of strangers through podcasts like The Moth and StoryC...

A burst of basil in a summer Caprese salad. That waft of muddled mint in your frosty mojito. Nothing makes a recipe sing like a few snips of fresh herbs. But all this flavor doesn't come cheap: even at a totally nongourmet supermarket, a handful of the fresh stuff can cost up to several bucks.
The solution: Grow your own. If your "garden" is an apartment porch, or your thumb is the opposite of green on the color wheel, take heart. "Herbs are among the easiest plants for beginning gardeners. T...

It’s totally normal for new moms to feel both #blessed and #stressed. But if your worries are spiraling out of control, reach out for help.
When my second child, Ethan, was 9 months old, I wore faint tracks in our dining-room rug from pacing so much. I had tingling in my arms, twitching muscles, and galloping thoughts. I loved my children, but over the previous few months, the bliss I’d experienced after the birth of my son had faded. My brain became a very bad neighborhood, and I was scared ...

As a child, Melissa Dinwiddie dreamed of becoming an artist. She filled the margins of her school papers with ornate designs and spent her book-fair money on fine-art posters. "The family story was that I would grow up and be an amazing artist," says Melissa, of Mountain View, CA. Then, at 13, she had a revelation — sort of. "I was in art class, and we were sketching trees. I looked around and, to my eyes, everyone else's drawings were beautiful and mine was a scribble. I thought, I'm obvious...