When you experience stress, your body focuses its resources to deal with the perceived threat at hand. Among other things, your muscles tense up. Your breathing speeds up.

At the end of year I took a good hard look at who had exhibited considerable resilience in 2014, and made a list of my favorites.

You already know you’re better off eating wholesome foods—fresh vegetables, whole grains, healthy fats and proteins. And that’s reason enough to whip up some simple meals at home.

How many articles have you read touting exercise as the antidote to stress? A billion? You know that exercise is perhaps your most potent tool for calming the frazzled psyche and caring for the body.

Let’s face it, even well-intentioned resolutions get played out quickly.

Advice for managing the stress of holiday busyness has just a few variations. Do any these sound familiar? Only take on what you want to take on. Check expectations at the door.

There is no time of the year more ripe for forgiveness than the holidays.

Recipe for Meaningful Gifts meQuilibrium Holiday Stress Relief Recipe Swap… Recipe 4! Okay, you’re shopping, you’re shopping.

Perfectionism Tonic Think about a moment when you wanted something (Christmas, perhaps?) to turn out perfectly. And how tense and judgy that made you–how separate from the people you love.

Holiday Nerve Tonic Round about this time, the holidays can start to feel like a grind. Anticipation builds right next to less sleep, more sweets, possible yucky weather, maybe no exercise.

The holiday season comes with a lot of indulgence—and most of it is pure sugar in disguise (or not so disguised).

Holiday time is upon us, and with it the stress of parties, family gatherings, shopping, and platters upon platters of irresistible, sugar-packed treats. Especially cookies.