While stress has a bad reputation, our human response to stress was actually developed as a survival mechanism to prepare us to fight, flee, or freeze. However, our brains have not yet evolved to understand that sending the wrong text to a friend or trying to speak Spanish in la panadería in Seville is not, in fact, a risk to our life. Our brain ca

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Of course, given the screaming, incessant demands of the modern world, authentic rest sounds like a utopian fantasy. Who has time to do nothing? But rest is not nothing; it is essential to who we are and what we can become. Far from being mere “down time” or a boring break in the action, rest is a time of crucial metabolic and psycho-spiritual reor

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Across the board, researchers from the U.S. Travel Association found that mega-travelers were significantly better off than their homebody counterparts. For instance: 79 percent of mega-travelers reported being happy in their relationships versus 66 percent of homebodies. 76 percent of mega-travelers enjoyed their time off versus 48 percent of home

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