Finding perspective on COVID-19.

“Wearing a mask in public is a deliberate act of caring for others … a concrete way to live the challenge to love your neighbor as yourself.”

A living will relinquishing your ventilator to a younger, healthier sick person can help spare our healthcare heroes from extra grief and pain.

Consider teaching your child mindfulness during this period of homeschooling.

Finding God—and yourself—in a pandemic. Is there divine meaning?

"And though I wish this siege of disease wasn’t upon us, I am already grateful. For this is a forced time of root-dwelling and a renewal of all we know to be true."

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick doth proclaim: “There are more important things than living.” Are there?

“I don’t think there’s a right or wrong way to feel about being in isolation or quarantine in this unprecedented situation. ... We are being stripped—like Inanna in the underworld—and we are being offered the gift of hard-won wisdom.”

“If we are going to survive as a species worthy of survival, we will have to get beyond the limits of ‘us’ verses ‘them’ and open to the truth of all of us together.”

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Someone you know has died due to COVID-19. Here’s the script on writing your gentle condolences.

In the age of COVID-19, mindfulness is a way to stay safe.

There is so much happening in the world right now that we have no control over. Here are some resources to help you reconnect to your heart and find stability.

Read about a difficult journey home from India during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the face of pandemic, there remain milestones—and growth—worth celebrating.

Learn a breathing technique to rev up your immune system.

Is coronavirus news ramping up your anxiety? Does the thought of social distancing make you fret? Try these five strategies to help you cope.

“As we find ourselves in the midst of various stages of reopening across the globe, our collective memory of this disaster can either fade away into history or become a drumbeat for a more just, equitable and sustainable society.”

It’s a pandemic and you’re a stress ball. Here are 5 ways to catch your breath and calm down.

The COVID-19 pandemic has uprooted many of our age old funerary and mourning traditions, leaving many with a feeling of sadness, hopelessness and fear. In Theresa Dominguez-Weiss’ new book Deathwalker: Journeys of Life, Death and Beyond she offers guidance toward a new way to HEAL.

Rabbi Rami is answering your questions, with special editions of his online column Roadside Musings.

“Our hearts convey the most poignant picture through the eyes. It is not merely a window, but a reflection of our state of mind.” —Jeffrey Benjamin, MD

Whether you’re surviving or thriving through solo lockdown, the Hermit Tarot card shines light on the solo journey through quarantine.

"With stay-home orders issued worldwide and offenders arrested for attending funerals and weddings, it's time that society learned a thing or two from introverts."

Finding balance isn't easy in these tightrope-walking days. But: “Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds’ wings.” –Rumi

Lydia Dugdale, author of The Lost Art of Dying, on the art of dying and why we should instead face our finitude squarely—while we still can.

Try these seven low-FODMAP recipes from, literally, all over the map. What they have in common besides their high yum factor is that they will make you feel like you’re in a different country even when you’re stuck at home because of the spreading coronavirus.

Kids stuck at home due to coronavirus pandemic? Here are some ways to keep them mentally and physically fit.

“As we practice caution and social distancing, let us not distance each other in our hearts. As we are forced to slow down and stop our busyness, let us feed more than our fear.”

Shortages of masks and other critical protective equipment are leaving nurses and other healthcare workers vulnerable while they serve on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic. What are we doing right now to protect them?

With news this intense and upsetting, we need to monitor our own consumption very carefully.

Where can you put your anxiety so that you can continue functioning?

In these heartbreaking times, being together during life's passages is often impossible. Rabbi Rami shares a prayer to bring comfort to those who are passing.

Stuck at home? Feeling out of sorts? We picked 10 episodes of our podcast, Essential Conversations, to help you get through the pandemic.

These feel-good foods are better alternatives than inhaling a sleeve of ultraprocessed crackers.

"A woman in her 40s was seated on a bench at the park entrance. She was weeping. I asked her if I could help. She replied that although she was healthy, she was scared."

Pandemic wasn’t one of the vows. How to hunker down with someone and love them still.

Feeling angry and cagey in lockdown with your partner? Here are 5 methods to (resolving) the madness.

If we dig deep, we can unearth wonder(ful) ways to survive and even thrive through this stressful time.

“When it comes down to direct intervention, I’d rather not be on a stage singing about an injustice when I see it happening in front of me. I’ll jump off the stage and address the injustice directly. But this (pandemic) work would be terrifyingly boring without a good soundtrack!” —Navajo Musician and Activist Klee Benally

From a safe-seeming 6 feet apart, a neighbor and I waved hello. As if on cue, we both asked: “How are you?” And, simultaneously, we both replied: “Fine.” White paper masks furre…

As lockdown is lifted "relationships again will be thrust into adjusting to a new 'new normal.' These 3 steps will help you reconnect with your beloved in a way that deepens your closeness and leaves you both feeling more in love,"

Time doesn’t heal all wounds. Here is how to address what still nags at you, and to finally right those long-standing hurts.

World War N is a fight against nihilism, the belief that power is the only thing that really matters.

“There are very extreme opposites in response to this pandemic, which, in a sense, are in all of us. I’m just hoping that the positive, compassionate response is the one that sings out the loudest.” —Jai Uttal

“It’s true that we get clarity about what matters during a crisis, and, hopefully, as a society, we actually can readjust toward things that do matter.” —Singer Damian Kulash of OK Go

“I realized my clients and I were under our own respective lockdowns way before this COVID-19 lockdown was mandated.” … Use this method to transform self-limiting beliefs, get unstuck, and move forward.

Discover how CBD can help you through the pandemic.

Virtual gatherings are flourishing, but quarantining has cut physically isolated individuals off from the comfort of tender touch we crave in uncertain times. These self-soothing practices can help overcome skin hunger and the crave for human touch.

I know as problems go, this is not the biggest thing, but I really miss practicing yoga in a studio.

Like serotonin for your soul, ginger root during the pandemic can be a balm for anxiety—among its many other benefits. Mary Novaria spins a yarn about how the superfood brought her relief.

Pregnancy naturally causes anxiety—then tack on a pandemic. Writer Julie Peters shares her journey and how working on stress-management skills helps.

The liminal space is the area between, the area of change and transition. It’s uncomfortable, but don’t attempt to ‘do’ your way out of liminality by setting goals and plowing ahead.

If we started the year 2020 with audacious hopes for perfect vision—seeing more clearly—we were completely blindsided. Our hoped-for year of clarity became a year of befuddlement. A year of new beginnings became a year of death.

Loneliness means your heart wants to open. What do you want to open it to?

“Facing mortality is only one of the gifts I am thankful for this pandemic season. Another is lockdown.”

“Giovanni brings a voice of discernment and solidity to our disquiet times. She sees the pandemic as carving out a spiritual space within us.”

During the COVID-19 pandemic, an unlikely hero has emerged: pets. “In addition to helping us navigate an increasingly frightening and lonely world, our pets can also help us manage the interpersonal relationships inside our own walls.”

Rabbi Rami Shapiro answers questions and offers advice to S&H readers. “Imagine you are sent as an emissary to Mars. What five things would you want Martians to know about us humans? How would you answer this?”

S&H editor at large, Stephen Kiesling, interviews Nedra Glover Tawwab, a therapist who quietly helps empower clients to speak up for themselves, set boundaries, and find peace.

Simple joys help us flow back to the best things in life. “Never have I so sensed in my patients and myself the necessity of cultivating awareness of simple joys.”

This non-touch method of saying hello and goodbye is something you should continue even after it’s deemed okay to hug again.

Do you know your values? COVID-19 has changed many peoples’ inner truth.

Exhausted by constant risk assessments? Are friendships forming or dissolving based solely on pandemic vigilance? You may be experiencing COVID trauma.

Are you blaming COVID? You have far more command than you realize. Stop blaming COVID and choose to take your power back.

Maintaining your psychological and spiritual health during the coronavirus crisis.

John Prine passed away Tuesday night after fighting COVID-19.

The news that a tiger in the Bronx Zoo tested positive for COVID-19 is raising questions about interspecies transmission and how to keep our pets healthy.

We're a virtual office, so we all work from home all the time. Here's some advice.

The Cinematherapy book series co-author shares picks for flicks and TV series to uplift you during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Quarantine is causing abrupt changes in our body time clocks that may hinder digestion, immune system function, energy, and mood. Here’s how to create a healthy schedule.

Here are 15 affirmations for powerful healing support.

Has the pandemic triggered money worries? Track the issue to its corresponding chakra to clear your financial challenges and take simple, prescribed steps toward prosperity.

“One way we experience the paradoxical nature of the spiritual path is in the tension between independence and dependence. ... Now Americans on the razor’s edge of the spiritual path are also confronting the troublesome paradoxes of our nation’s history and our responsibilities as citizens.”

A puppyhood coach and pack therapist explains how to ease the transition from fall to winter for your canine companions, including the pandemic puppy in your household.

Banish coronavirus burnout and pandemic fatigue with these positive affirmation statements.

What have you learned in 2020? If you feel you have struggled this past year, mentally or physically, you are not alone. But what are the positives?

Pandemic pods kept you sane while keeping COVID-19 at bay. It's okay to mourn the loss of your pod as you celebrate the world moving closer to normal.

Kevin Anderson, PhD, answers questions from S&H readers. “With COVID-19, the existential threat of climate change, terrorism, and the continuing threat of nuclear war, I’m feeling more and more like nothing makes sense and maybe life is just meaningless.”

The baths will be back! Retreat veteran Mary Bemis shares her predictions for the future of retreats.

“Play is the gateway to vitality,” says The National Institute for Play. When is the last time you took the time to just play?

Is that post your family member or friend just made on Facebook legit? Follow a few best practices to start deciphering fact from fiction like a pro.

A frontline nurse seeks a spiritual way of seeing.

Feeling guilty about not practicing enough self-care or like you’re not doing it right? Go ahead and take these off your list of things to worry about.

Turn lights on to destroy viruses. Turn off to prevent heart disease. And through it all, just keep drinking coffee.

Looking to travel to holy sites? Explore sacred travel etiquette and learn how to make the best of your experience.

COVID-19 has anxiety on high. To cope: It’s time to surrender.

We talk to Karla McLaren about what we can learn from our anger, how to approach anxiety, why positive emotions aren't always positive, and more.

“How can you help yourself feel a sense of calm, reassurance, and peace? The answer is at your feet. Literally.”

Back-to-school time is usually a happy stress. This year, the pandemic and school closures have us all feeling extra anxious and stressed in a not-so-happy way. Try these affirmations for returning to school during a pandemic.

How greening your space, petting your animal bestie, and taking a break to walk can fight Zoom fatigue and improve your work-from-home routine.

Devotionals serve as a grounding presence during unprecedented times. “The practice of a daily devotion connects to the idea of spiritual reflection as a way to gain clarity and peace. Daily time for devotion creates inner peace, slows us down, and allows us to connect with the divine.”

Individualism and capitalism are simply not working. Author Sarah Wilson talks about the challenges we face as humans, such as climate change and racial injustice, and proposes healthier systems to heal a fractured world.

2020 was a year. But maybe there's a silver lining (or two) to this pandemic after all.

“Retreat centers are ready to invite guests back onto their properties, but what that means may be vastly different in 2021 and beyond, even after the pandemic is under control.”

Ward off infection and avoid illness by cranking up your body’s defense system all night long.

Aromatherapy may be able to help COVID-19 “long-haulers” recover their sense of smell.

COVID can result in long-term brain fog. Energy healing can bring relief by clearing energetic spider webs.

What does it mean to be an interfaith minister, and in what ways have our individual spiritual paths changed since the pandemic? Minister and journalist Laurie Sue Brockway explains.

A study shows toxic cleaning products can be as bad on the lungs as smoking. Here are some suggestions for alternatives.

“There’s always some new world on the other side of that destruction, even if we can’t imagine it yet.”

“What if I look at this pandemic from the perspective of Earth? What might our 4.5 billion-year-old planet have to say to the most disruptive of her 8.7 million species right now?”

“Life is wild and nothing is permanent. Now deal with it.”

Rabbi Rami is answering your questions, with special editions of his online column Roadside Musings.

In this special four-part series, Rabbi Rami gives counsel on how to stay healthy from social, psychological, and spiritual perspectives during the COVID-19 crisis. Here is some …

“Eating foods that will center or calm your energy center is a great way to shift your energy from anxious and scared, to balanced and strong.”

Practicing radical self-care in the face of fear is an act of courage, one that will help build the resilience that we will all need as we move forward.

When Italians shuttered their windows and the singing stopped, this mystic mother went in search of solace.

Rabbi Rami speaks to a public health expert on how can we help ourselves, and others, during the pandemic.

Able to be practiced anywhere, by anyone, and at any time, grounding is an effective way to cope with anxiety.

Want to manage manipulative, triggering, altogether difficult people? Gray rock them.

We interviewed Sharon Salzberg for this issue to honor her remarkable career. With COVID-19 on everyone’s mind as we went to print, she graciously allowed us to share an adapted excerpt from Real Happiness.

Savannah Ballet Theatre’s Abby McCuen is making theater more inclusive with sensory-friendly performances.

We chat up Dr. James Hamblin, author of Clean: The New Science of Skin, on what it means to be clean—and how much your skin really needs all those suds, soaps, and sanitizers.

“Do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?” —Rumi

One Journey is a grassroots organization that connects displaced people with welcoming communities, encouraging compassion and understanding.

Rabbi Rami looks at the practice of metta, which allows us to rest in a field of compassion and peace.

The body has its own way of processing emotions. “The rush of symptoms people experience in a panic attack is a tsunami of fear being released in the body. The question is: What’s deep below the surface that keeps building up fear that needs to be released?”

“Whether we are singing alone as an outlet for our personal anger or raising our voices together in action, fierce singing may help us bring much needed change. Yes, it’s the end of the world as we knew it. And it’s about time.”

Got questions? Rabbi Rami has answers.

Struggling with self-esteem? You're not alone.

Meet three women who are champions in their communities.

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Lamentation: the passionate expression of grief, mourning, sorrow, or regret: a song or poem that expresses sorrow for someone who has died or something that is gone.

From improved sleep and circulation to reduced anxiety and more, regular exercise boosts immunity and strengthens the body’s defense against illness.

“Each human arrives in the material world with a purpose, and with all the gifts, talents, skills, and abilities necessary to fulfill it,” contends Olivia Benson in Answers fr…

We dig in with author Sue Stuart-Smith. “When we sow the soil, we plant seeds of healing within ourselves.”

“You don’t have to storm the state house or the White House to be an activist. You can sit on your living room couch and knit a blanket or make two masks for your neighbor”—Brookline, Massachusetts’ Hadassah Margolis employs craftivism to make real change in her community and beyond.

Got questions? Rabbi Rami has answers.

One of America’s most respected singer/songwriters, Lucinda Williams talks about joy, crossword puzzles, and the magic of a little red wine.

Cultivating a literal garden is a way to also cultivate a thriving mind, says this prominent psychiatrist and psychotherapist.

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Kathryn Drury Wagner speaks with trauma expert Kathryn Templeton on how to move from immobilization into balance and harmony.

From medical appointments to yoga classes, the world has gone virtual—and it’s working. Brandi-Ann Uyemura digs into the future of care.

“I made the personal choice to keep teaching and practicing the form of yoga that helped transform my life.”

Donna Amrita Davidge has been teaching yoga and meditation in New York City since the 1980s and at her yoga retreat in northern Maine (May to October) since 1997. During the COVID-19 crisis, she has created a private Facebook page called Yoga: Balance Beyond Comfort. She has also produced various yoga products, available at the Sewall House website.

Craftivism is a way to be a changemaker while also being creative with your hands. Here are five ways to craft real change right now.

“Allow disappointment to bring you back to your true essence by stripping away any inauthentic expectations, rediscovering your solid values and going forward with what really matters most to you.”

Got questions? Rabbi Rami has answers.

Practicing “Holy Breath” listening can positively impact even the most turbulent relationships. “Instead of playing just a few deep, painful bass notes on their inner emotional pianos, Holy Breath listening gave them access to some higher notes. At the beginning of the healing process, such moments can be like the sun peeking through dark storm clouds.”

How can we live in sacred relationship with the more-than-human world?

Get tips on how to strengthen your intuition, the critical tool you use to listen to that inner voice that often knows the best way forward.

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Stop talking about it! Here’s how to make a group getaway actually happen.

Anticipating our mortality via the lost Medieval practice of ars moriendi.

After death, what remains? Rabbi Steve Leder discusses his book The Beauty of What Remains: How Our Greatest Fear Becomes Our Greatest Gift.

Frog venom, really? Well, here are some of the health and wellness trends that should be on your radar for 2021.

“Books are my best friends ...” says Rabbi Rami, discussing the connection between spirituality and books—and why he chooses company carefully.

In a time of unprecedented grief, we wanted to share resources to support anyone dealing with grief and the surrounding emotions.

In her book Dusk, Night, Dawn author Anne Lamott talks about her faith, climate change, late-in-life-marriage, and how to keep the courage.

The phoenix appears throughout the world as a symbol of rebirth and resilience. How can you invoke the power of the mystical phoenix in your daily life?

Your nervous system has a sweet spot. Reach the optimal state of calm arousal and call a cease-fire on the war within you.

An examen practice can assist in finding and interpreting the thread of spirituality that is always in your life.

Life isn’t about hogging the last bread roll—it’s about sharing the table.

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Apifera Farm is a healing place for animals and elders. In addition to visits with Harry, seniors can meet geese and goats and even groom the horses, providing the element of touch, the rhythm of repetition, and the curative fresh air of the farm.

Besides taking a lunch, holding meetings while walking and doing body scan meditation at your desk are two more examples of mindfully returning to the office.

The idea for Finding Refuge came to Michelle Cassandra Johnson from her ancestors. Her mission—“create a space for people to come together and grieve.”

“Our human emotional system, at times, is wired to lead us to embrace the three poisons without thinking of the consequences.”

Embracing fate to reduce struggle is key to practicing amor fati.

Discover the medicinal mints you can easily grow in your own yard—and use to fight anxiety, insomnia, nausea, and more.

These two profiles may inspire you to make changes in your own life.

“I am who I am because we are who we are. This inextricable connection is what I call fierce love.”

A groundbreaking, authoritative exploration—rich with powerful personal stories and convincing research—of the many ways the living can and do accompany the dying on their journey into the afterlife.

Gut issues increase as you age, but there’s so much you can do to keep it functioning well.

It may not be PTSD, but we all experience trauma. Recognizing this is good for everyone’s mental health.

Musings and active imagination on fear and hope inspired by journaled dreams.

A physician and personal development coach shows us how to overcome an overworked “inner protector” and reclaim our essential power.

Zen Buddhist priest Osho Zenju Earthlyn Manuel shares her wisdom on leaning into life’s many difficulties and invites us to explore our relationships to darkness and blackness as we know them.

Buddhism offers deep wisdom to help us practice compassion every day, both towards ourselves and others. Try these five tools to develop greater compassion.

Herbs have the power to boost immunity and nourish the spirit. Learn more with wisdom from herbalist and green witch Robin Rose Bennett.

Science and mindfulness meet in canine-filled green public locales.