The average adult in the United States now spends over 7 hours per day looking at screens. Smartphones check in at 4–5 hours of that total, with the average person picking up their phone over 150 times per day. If that number doesn’t alarm you, consider what it displaces: sleep, face-to-face convers
Eating for comfort, distraction, or stress relief is human. Food activates reward circuits in the brain, relieves tension in the short term, and is deeply woven into our social and emotional experiences. The problem isn’t that food brings comfort — it’s when food becomes the primary tool for managin
Physical activity is one of the most powerful interventions available for mental health — yet it remains dramatically underutilized compared to pharmaceutical and therapeutic approaches. Not because it’s ineffective, but because no company profits from prescribing it, and because starting to exercis
Loneliness is being called a public health epidemic. The US Surgeon General declared it one in 2023. Studies suggest that over half of American adults experience measurable loneliness, and rates among younger adults have been rising for a decade — accelerated but not created by the pandemic.
Life & Transition A clear-eyed, unsentimental guide to the identity, career, and meaning questions that show up after 50 — and how to navigate them without performing a reinvention you don’t believe in....