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Listen to a 3-minute meditation: How to tend your inner garden

It’s important to be preventive and proactive with our self-care, rather than waiting until we’re burned out or stressed

By Dora Kamau

Advice

How to safely wean yourself off sleeping pills

If you want to reduce your sleeping medication, but are feeling discouraged and anxious, there are strategies to slowly and safely taper off them.

By Lisa Strauss

Is it safe to exercise outdoors when the air quality is bad?

By Gretchen Reynolds

Forget 10,000 steps. 7 surprising tips for step counters.

By Gretchen Reynolds

Air quality, self-care and weight loss: The week in Well+Being

Those of us who live on the East Coast have been marveling at the orange sky, strange smells and the coughing, headaches and sneezes it has triggered in many people.

By Tara Parker-Pope

Have a question for a doctor? The Washington Post can help.

By Washington Post Staff

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‘MacGyver med’ and rock-and-roll: Event medicine is the ticket for some

More people are living with dementia. What are the signs and risk factors?

Advice

Gaslighting is emotional abuse. Here’s how to recognize and stop it.

Women’s health: A medical breakthrough and new guidance

A catatonic woman awakened after 20 years. Her story may change psychiatry.

Eating-disorder group’s AI chatbot gave weight loss tips, activist says

On TikTok, women get real about the pitfalls of motherhood

For mega-rich heirs, the anxieties that drive ‘Succession’ are all too real

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Have a question for a doctor? The Washington Post can help.

By Washington Post Staff

GUIDES

More people are living with dementia. What are the signs and risk factors?

Dementia is characterized by impairment of memory, thinking and reasoning, which eventually render people unable to engage in daily tasks

By Marlene Cimons

Who can donate blood? What to know about FDA’s new guidelines

By Teddy Amenabar, Fenit Nirappil and Laurie McGinley

Why daylight saving time is worse for your body than standard time

By Aaron Steckelberg and Lindsey Bever

11 tips to plan your health care after job loss

By Lindsey Bever

The best health books experts read in 2022

By Aviva Loeb

meet the WELL+BEING TEAM

Tara Parker-Pope is a longtime editor and science writer who knows that well-being is best achieved through the small health decisions we make each day.

Anahad O’Connor is a veteran health reporter who writes about the science of food and the various biological and cultural forces that influence how we eat.

Gretchen Reynolds has covered exercise science for more than two decades, including the perils of inactivity and the benefits of moving just a little more every day.

Richard Sima is a neuroscientist turned science journalist committed to revealing the wonder and mystery of the brain — and why it matters.

Kelyn Soong is an avid runner who writes about exercise culture and the lessons everyday athletes can learn from sports stars and fitness experts.

Amanda Morris is a science reporter and hard of hearing woman whose reporting on people with disabilities and chronic illnesses challenges long-held stigmas and sheds light on health disparities.

Lindsey Bever writes with empathy and expertise on a variety of personal health topics, including chronic illness, mental health and navigating the medical system.

Teddy Amenabar explores the science and the myths behind the health information people are seeing, searching and talking about online.