Wellness

Positive Change for the Next Generation

How Positive Presence is tackling teen mental health and empowering the next generation Article by Kendra Johnson | Photography by Emily John Photography When you were a teenager, do you recall feeling as if the pressure of the whole world was on your shoulders? Unfortunately, that feeling has only grown for today’s generation of preteens and young adults. On top of the usual pressures of being a student, today’s economic and societal pressures can end up being too much for many teens.  So...

Health + Wellness

Life Minded

Watch Out 2025! Article by Jen Fortner Happy 2025!  Cheers to fresh starts and new things in a New Year. In 2025, though, instead of adding to my soul-crushing to-do list, I’ve decided to be controversial and get rid of something this year. Something big.  I broke up with my smartwatch. We are done. And I don’t think we are ever, ever, ever getting back together. I have always been a watch person. Even in high school, I loved a good watch. I had a Fossil watch with a pretty mother-of-pearl...

Health + Wellness

Not Getting Enough Zzzzs? Try These 15 Tricks!

Rest easy, we share how you can fall asleep faster and wake up feeling refreshed Article by Kimberly Blaker For many, getting a solid night’s sleep is as elusive as winning the lottery. Getting too little sleep is so common that it’s become almost a badge of honor to get through each day with sleep deprivation. Even if you feel like you can function on little sleep, it’s actually debilitating, if not dangerous, to a person’s health and mental faculties. Not getting enough sleep increases the...

Food + Beverage

Magic Minestrone

The world’s longest-lived family enjoys this soup every day — now you can too! Article and Photography by This tasty minestrone soup is one that the world’s longest-lived family has eaten every day of their lives. The Melis family in Sardinia, Italy, holds the Guinness World Record as the oldest family in history — nine siblings with a collective age of 851 (the oldest was 109). They ate this same recipe for lunch every day, along with some sourdough bread and a glass of Cannonau wine. The...