To meet whatever might come up this holiday season, we’ve gathered a few guided meditations to help you cultivate balance and equanimity in the midst of the holiday rush. 3 Guided Meditations to Help You Breathe Through the Holiday Season 3 Guided Meditations to Help You Breathe Through the Holiday Season 1. Let Your Practice Guide You Beyond Crisis Mode When life feels chaotic, mindfulness can provide a safe space within ourselves for us to feel at home in....

I’ll caveat this by saying that none of these tricks are exactly groundbreaking, but what may be any given weekday for some might be a life-changing experience for others. I for one am more of a blowdry-and-done kinda gal, and trust when I say that these gave me much more confidence to switch up my everyday glam. Scroll on: ** 1. The Straight Pull Best for: poker-straight, paparazzi-shiny hair...

Susan Cain • Crown Susan Cain wants to know if we can transform the way we love, lead, parent, talk about death, and understand each other by embracing the “hidden riches of sorrow and longing.” In looking for the answer, Cain turns to philosophers (past and present), researchers, songs, poems, and anecdotes and weaves them together in nine chapters. We’re never given a single answer to what is possible when we embrace the bitter in bittersweet emotions, partly because each of us gets to choose how and when to let sorrow in....

7 Sexy Brown Colored Highlights to Try 7 Sexy Brown Colored Highlights to Try 1. Honey Brown Highlights A fantastic way to show off your layers, honey brown and toffee-toned highlights can help warm up neutral brunette bases easily. These highlights tend to look best on longer lengths, so try wearing your hair curly or wavy to showcase your fun multidimensional color. 2. Brown Multidimensional Highlights If you wear your hair long with a middle part, it never hurts to add some caramel, mocha or honey brown highlights to your hair....

Everything is impermanent. It’s always changing, coming together and falling apart. And it’s frustrating to not be able to make things go our way. But paradoxically, when we can accept that everything is not up to us, and we stop trying to control what we can’t change or trying to predict what we can’t predict, then we can feel a lot more at ease and more open to the moment-to-moment unfolding of our lives....