Even if you're a seasoned professional multi-tasker, your body, mind, emotional life, and growth potential can get a blow from over-committing. Take a look at what's on your plate if you're swamped, and you can surely find some space for yourself even when you feel trapped.

Tension can be useful, exciting, flirtatious, strength-building, or destructive. Put yourself in charge of how you direct it.

Having goals can be useful, but don't lose sight of how great you are and how much you can help yourself and others right now.

When we interact with others from a place of compassion without expectations, things are set up to go pretty smoothly.

The exercise of politics is criminalized in Venezuela.

The movement across Canada to fight toxic chemicals is a women's movement. It's a concern about health; it's very intimate.

Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to community organizations, especially those concerned with young people, health, arts and leisure, neighborhood and civic groups and professional associations.

For working mothers, creating a work-life balance is critical, as we must ensure we do not neglect any significant part of our lives - our children, our family's health, our own health and fitness, our marriage, and, of course, our careers.