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For winter mental health, we know that shorter days change the rhythm at home. Energy dips, tempers spark faster, and motivation can stall when it is dark before dinner. If you are noticing more tears, more sibling squabbles, or a general blah feeling, you are not alone. Winter tends to amplify stressors and soften our usual coping skills. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, seasonal affective disorder is a form of depression with a recurrent seasonal pattern that often lasts for about 4-5 months every year. The good news is that small, repeated check-ins nudge the whole house…

Mesfin and Kauten reunite – credit Allen Dollar Each of these men had to walk a long hard road, paved with blood, sweat, and tears, to arrive at this moment, embracing each other as both patient-physician and colleague-colleague. From his birth in a powerless, waterless village in Ethiopia 41 years ago, Mesfin Yana has often found himself at the mercy of the kindness of strangers; strangers like Jim Kauten, a cardiothoracic surgeon who first met Mesfin when he was wheeled into his Atlanta operating theater for open heart surgery. This incredible tale of compassion and gratitude, documented by the Washington…

Posit Science SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 12, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Results from the Warfighter Brain Fitness Study, which recently published in the journal Military Medicine, show that the combination of two brain fitness programs delivered significant improvements across multiple key measures of cognitive resilience a health and readiness priority of the US military. The study, led by Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) combined the top-down, strategy-based executive function training program SMART™ (Strategic Memory Advanced Reasoning Training) from the UT Dallas Center for BrainHealth with the bottom-up, adaptive and progressively challenging brain exercises found in BrainHQ from Posit Science. Cognitive resilience has…

When I received my first phone, I remember being criticized by others for not being on my phone to answer their texts promptly. Now that I have adapted to their needs, I am addicted to my phone like 46% of Americans. My digital footprint is expansive, and I am often online even if I don’t want to be. Others are facing the same issue and planning to remove many habits our phones have created.  Going into 2026, an online movement was created when Generation Z and millennials decided they were done with doomscrolling. They are replacing Spotify with iPods, streaming…

Last Updated:January 13, 2026, 11:33 ISTExperts explain how everyday habits around cleanliness, checking, routines, and perfectionism can quietly evolve into OCD, how it differs from personality traits, when to seek helpWhat begins as simple habits of cleanliness, checking, or perfection can quietly turn into anxiety-driven compulsions—recognising the shift is the first step toward help.In everyday conversation, the term “OCD” is often used casually, applied to anyone who likes things clean, organised, or done a certain way. Mental health professionals, however, warn that this casual labelling not only misunderstands the condition but can also mask when ordinary habits genuinely begin to…

Hobbies aren’t just something to do to fill time. They can: foster creativity help you make new friends expand your mind (and your brain cells) and even improve your confidence Think about this: When was a moment that you completely lost track of time because you were so immersed in the activity at hand? My guess is that it was some kind of passion hobby.  But maybe you’ve lost your way. The pandemic happened… Life happened… Years went by… You aren’t really sure what you “like” anymore. And that’s okay. We’re here to help. Whether you’re seeking a creative outlet,…

As thousands of schools across Syria remain shattered by conflict, volunteers in Talbisseh are refusing to wait for aid, rebuilding classrooms themselves so children can learn in safety and dignity In Talbisseh, a city in Syria’s central Homs countryside that lost nearly a quarter of its schools during years of conflict, ordinary citizens are refusing to wait for reconstruction. Instead, they are rebuilding their schools themselves and, in the process, redefining what recovery can look like. The damage is stark. Salim, a fifth-grader at one of the city’s schools, sits on a metal chair frame stripped of its wooden seat,…

“I have seen and touched and danced and sang and climbed and loved and meditated on a lifetime spent living honestly. Should it all end tonight, I can positively say there would be no regrets. I feel fortunate to have walked 90 years in my shoes. I am truly lucky. I really have lived 1,000 times over.” Those are the opening lines of the final entry in my grandma Zelda’s journal—a 270-page leather-bound journal she wrote small entries in almost every morning during the final decade of her life. In it she reflected on lessons she had learned, lessons she…

– credit, Australian Wildlife Conservancy On Australia’s Kangaroo Island, cat-proof fencing is protecting native species from predation following a devastating wildfire and allowing them to recover in numbers that are shocking biologists. The third-largest island controlled by Australia, Kangaroo Island saw a large fire burn through much of its scrub habitat in 2020, and conservationists knew this would leave native animals extremely vulnerable to attack from feral cats. As soon as a week after the fires receded, employees of the Australian Wildlife Conservancy got to work surveying the landscape to see how feasible it would be to build a fence…

If somebody is working on themselves and changing for the better, it’s unnecessary to keep bringing up their past. People can change and grow. You know that’s true. But have you given yourself a fair chance to change and grow, too? Have you loosened your grip on what’s behind you, so you can step forward? If you’re shaking your head, you aren’t alone. At times we all fall victim to our attachments. We simply don’t realize how often we block our own present blessings by holding on to everything so tightly. Thus, it’s time for a quick true story about…