A mindfulness treatment created at the University of Utah in recent years has proved to be effective at decreasing opioid misuse. Now, a new economic study found it could also save hundreds of thousands of dollars per patient. That’s if healthcare, criminal justice and lost productivity ...
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 ...
Does it ever seem like your child’s only mission is to embarrass you in public? Or to make you pull your hair out every time they forget their lunch at home and call you to bring it to them? Maybe it has nothing to do with a diabolic plot to cause premature aging but is actually related to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A product labeled as cat’s claw is being removed from Utah shelves as Utah officials investigate a recent death and several severe health incidents that may be linked to it. According to the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food and the Utah Poison Control Center, multiple flavors of ...
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 ...
From the outside, you're the reliable one. You hit deadlines, answer the texts, show up early, remember the details everyone else forgets. People call you on-top-of-it, maybe even enviably calm. What they don't see is the engine underneath — the racing what-ifs, the replaying of conversations ...
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 ...
