Courtney Helgoe

2 weeks ago | experiencelife.lifetime.life | Kara Douglass Thom |Courtney Helgoe |Heidi Wachter |David Schimke

I met Jakers on my first visit to Anne Krocak’s horse-rescue sanctuary, Art, Heart, and Hoofbeats, in Cologne, Minn. The 14-year-old quarter horse — a black, brown, and white paint with asthma — had come to live with Krocak only two months earlier. As we brushed the excess hair from his winter coat, Krocak interpreted Jakers’s body language for me, explaining how a particularly subtle movement was suggestive of his state of mind.

1 month ago | experiencelife.lifetime.life | Kate Morgan |Laine Bergeson Becco |Courtney Helgoe |Mo Perry

Good health is all about balance. We focus on balancing our hormones, our diets, and even our skin’s pH. For the sake of our mental health, we try to create work–life balance. But most of us don’t think about keeping our body’s natural fungi in balance. Candida albicans is a type of yeast that occurs naturally on the skin and in the mouth and intestines. When the balance between that yeast and healthy bacteria in the body is disrupted, candida can overgrow and cause a fungal infection.

1 month ago | experiencelife.lifetime.life | Courtney Helgoe |Kara Douglass Thom |Molly Tynjala |Henry Emmons

Sleeping on rocky, root-covered ground isn’t understood to be one of camping’s signature joys. But the year I opted for a cabin vacation rather than wilderness paddling, I missed nights in the tent the way a dog misses its absent owner. I felt huge relief crawling back into my sleeping bag on the following trip. Scientific research into the practice of earthing (also called grounding) offers some explanation for that relief.

2 months ago | experiencelife.lifetime.life | Maggie Fazeli Fard |Jessie Sholl |Courtney Helgoe

Navigate directly to a A Flow to Move Through Hard TimesA strength coach once shared some training wisdom that has stayed with me through the years: “Move where you can so you can move where you can’t.”In a literal sense, the aphorism applies to improving range of motion in, say, a squat. Rather than force your body into an uncomfortable position or depth, approach your personal edges, train strength and resilience there — and in time your body will find more space to move.

2 months ago | experiencelife.lifetime.life | Laine Bergeson |David Richo |Elizabeth Larsen |Courtney Helgoe

Conflict is a fact of life. If we interact with other people over any stretch of time — siblings, friends, colleagues, the awesome postal worker who’s been on our route forever — we’ll eventually have moments of disagreement. And though relational conflict can be difficult with anyone, the fights we have with our intimate partners are often the most distressing.