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Introducing Neurocycle Insiders: Renew Your Mind, One Week at a Time

Dr. Caroline Leaf

Introducing Neurocycle Insiders: Renew Your Mind, One Week at a Time

Weekly Prescriptions, live Q&As every Friday, and a community that gets it. Founding pricing ends November 13

Ten More Minutes Turns Into Midnight: What Revenge Bedtime Procrastination Is Telling You

Dr. Caroline Leaf

Ten More Minutes Turns Into Midnight: What Revenge Bedtime Procrastination Is Telling You

You meant to go to bed an hour ago, you’re tired, and you’re still on your phone. Why do so many of us do this?

Why the Tradwife Life Looks So Good When You’re Exhausted

Dr. Caroline Leaf

Why the Tradwife Life Looks So Good When You’re Exhausted

The tradwife trend may say less about the 1950s and more about how exhausted women are.

What to Do When Life Feels Like Too Much

Dr. Caroline Leaf

What to Do When Life Feels Like Too Much

When everything piles up at once and you're about to snap, here's what to do in the first minute, and why breathing alone won't fix it.

A Neuroscientist's Near Death Experience: What I Saw When My Heart Stopped

Dr. Caroline Leaf

A Neuroscientist's Near Death Experience: What I Saw When My Heart Stopped

I flatlined in the ICU and came back with no fear of death. Here's what the research says is really happening.

Why the Fear of Disappointing People Feels Like Losing Yourself

Dr. Caroline Leaf

Why the Fear of Disappointing People Feels Like Losing Yourself

Why disappointing someone can feel like losing a piece of yourself, and what helps.

The Reason 92% of Goals Don't Stick

Dr. Caroline Leaf

The Reason 92% of Goals Don't Stick

Why do we set the same goals year after year, only to find ourselves stuck in the same patterns?

I Had an Eating Disorder. So Did My Daughter. Here's How We Found Healing.

Dr. Caroline Leaf

I Had an Eating Disorder. So Did My Daughter. Here's How We Found Healing.

My daughter Dominique and I on how an eating disorder passed from one generation to the next, and the exercises that helped us both break the pattern.

Are We Too Health-Conscious?

Dr. Caroline Leaf

Are We Too Health-Conscious?

A wearable can measure your heart rate. It can't tell you what it means.

The Lie That Made a Generation of Women Sick

Dr. Caroline Leaf

The Lie That Made a Generation of Women Sick

For a decade, ambition got sold to women as a personality trait. We need to talk about what it cost us.

Is Botox Bad for Your Mental Health?

Dr. Caroline Leaf

Is Botox Bad for Your Mental Health?

Botox requests among women under 35 have surged in the last few years. Is there a line between healthy self-improvement and body dysmorphia?

Why Your Body Keeps Choosing Relationships That Hurt You

Dr. Caroline Leaf

Why Your Body Keeps Choosing Relationships That Hurt You

Dr. Nicole LePera on why your body reaches for what's familiar over what's actually good for you, and how reparenting actually works.