Self Improvement

Research explores how gratitude works to improve our mental health.

Your split ends may look better, but truly fixing damage is another story.

Decoding the murky waters of life coaching.

By reshaping your mindset, you can learn to love winter, sub-zero wind chills and all.

“One of the reasons why chatter feels so bad is it's all-consuming, and you feel trapped.”

When we find ourselves in the thick of disorder, uncertainty or loss, resilience can seem impossible, even trite, to hope for. At the end of September, Hurricane Helene wreaked havoc on my community in western North Carolina. Businesses, homes and more than 100 lives were lost.

Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. My ex boyfriend has a 17-year-old daughter he shares custody of and to whom he is a phenomenal father. Her mom is fairly absent, and borders on neglectful.

Not getting what you want is an unavoidable part of life. The way you choose to handle it is what you can control. Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out.

ChatGPT is an incredibly powerful platform with a range of features and capabilities that many users barely tap into. One of the most prominent — yet largely hidden — features is its memory. ChatGPT can remember snippets of information about you as you use the app.

Every week, I visit my father, who has Alzheimer’s and lives alone. When I tell people this they say, “Is that safe?” This wasn’t always the case. When he first started having symptoms, before my mother died, it was hard, of course.