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Ask Dr. Steve: Childhood experiences shape relationships

The patterns we carry into adulthood often have their roots in childhood. This doesn't mean we're destined to repeat the past, but understanding where our responses come from can be the first step toward creating the changes we want. The strategies you developed as a child made sense given what ...

EveryDay Strong: 5 mental health resources for children

When your child is facing some kind of behavior difficulty or crisis, one of the hardest things is knowing where you can go to get help. Sometimes you also need help knowing what kinds of activities you can do at home to strengthen your child’s resilience while you’re waiting to get into ...

Wildfire smoke is now the primary pollutant affecting pregnancy, study shows

A new study examining pollution levels across a 16-year span found that while general pollution levels from sources such as cars and industry have significantly declined, recent increases in wildfire smoke air pollution have offset those gains and could be contributing to negative outcomes for ...

Ask Dr. Steve: Nobody warns you how much losing a friend hurts

There was no dramatic blowup. Nobody cheated, nobody screamed. The texts just got shorter. Plans stopped getting made. The person who once knew everything about you slowly became someone you'd nod to across a room. And you're grieving — genuinely grieving — but it feels like you're not ...

Ask Dr. Steve: The Sunday scaries are real — That 4 p.m. dread has a reason

It's Sunday afternoon. The weekend isn't over — there are still hours left — but you can already feel it draining away. Around 4 or 5 p.m. something shifts: a tightening in your chest, a low dread, your mind running tomorrow's to-do list before tomorrow has even arrived. The day is still ...

RMU: Rising-star educator Tye Jensen has a skeleton in his past

When he was in fifth grade, Tye Jensen badly wanted one item from the book fair at his Provo elementary school. It wasn’t a popular Goosebumps novel or any book for that matter. It wasn’t a multi-color click pen or a fuzzy neon Troll pencil topper, either. After begging his parents, he ...

Ask Dr. Steve: Why you stay up too late even though you’re exhausted

It's 12:40 a.m. You have to be up in six hours. You are not doing anything important — one more episode, one more scroll, one more video you won't even remember tomorrow. You're tired. You know you'll regret this. And yet some stubborn part of you refuses to go to bed, because going to bed ...