Mental & Emotional Health Archives

How to Stay Young at Heart: 3 Tips From Youthful Dick Van Dyke

At 100 years old, actor and comedian Dick Van Dyke stays young at heart. Here’s his refreshing advice for maintaining a youthful spirit.

There’s a difference between acknowledging pain and letting it take over. Get expert advice on how to stop feeling sorry for yourself.

Are you holding yourself back? With this list of limiting beliefs, you can check to see what’s keeping you from reaching your full potential.

Limiting beliefs can be difficult to defeat, but not impossible. Here are tips to help you overcome limiting beliefs to improve your life.

Learn how to handle criticism with grace and even use it to your advantage. Here’s advice from Dale Carnegie, Jefferson Fisher, and more.

Defensiveness derails communication and strains relationships. Learn why we get defensive and how to stop this impulse in yourself and others.

Harvard psychiatrist John Ratey reveals the link between physical activity and mental health. Learn how exercise can treat five conditions.

Despite living in an era of connectivity, millions of people are experiencing profound social isolation. Learn about the loneliness epidemic.

Social isolation and loneliness have serious consequences. From physical and mental health problems to society as a whole.

Bad habits can be hard to break, but it’s not impossible. Read Shortform’s guide to understand habits and form good behavioral patterns.