Prescriptions for Life

Improve your mental and physical health and live a resilient life.

Susan Biali Haas M.D.

Practical Strategies to Help You Lose Weight and Keep It Off

Stuck in the cycle of losing weight and gaining it back? The battle is real: your body's designed to defend a fat setpoint. These strategies may help you to finally win the battle.

Why Lack of Boundaries Can Lead to Burnout

Feeling excessively stressed at work? On the edge of burnout? Poor boundaries at work could be the cause. Here's how to identify and fix common workplace boundary issues.

How to Stop Numbing Out With Food

Do you frequently turn to food to numb your feelings? Do you wish that you could stop? Follow these four steps to decode and heal your habit of emotional eating.

Taking a Walk Will Boost Your Creativity and Problem-Solving

Feeling stuck? Got a problem you can't solve? Take a short walk. This research from Stanford illustrates how to harness the power of a walk, to boost creativity and find solutions.

How to Calm Your Racing Mind so You Can Sleep

You're desperate to get more sleep, but when you go to bed your mind races and keeps you awake. These seven simple questions will help you identify both the cause and the solution.

Are You a Helper or an Enabler?

Is there someone in your life who needs to change a negative habit? Do and say things that will help them change, rather than enabling them to stay stuck.

To Change Your Life, Pick One Thing and Do It

Are you ready, right now, to make a significant change in your life? Pick just one thing to work on, and your odds of success dramatically increase.

How to Avoid Emotional Eating Over the Holidays

Is emotional overeating a problem for you, especially during the holidays? Here are 8 ways to prevent stress and emotional eating from taking over.

What To Do When You Feel Resentful

Resentment is a red flag calling out for your attention. Here's what you can do to stop resentment from stealing your energy and your life.

Could “Relative” Hypoglycemia Be Causing Your Anxiety?

Are your food choices and the timing of your meals making your anxiety symptoms worse? It's very possible.

Forget Those Long Hours: Self-Care Drives Success

Are you pushing hard at work, and pushing self-care aside? Don't. According to leadership expert Michael Hyatt, self-neglect will only sabotage your long term career success.

Hard-Working and Conscientious? Watch Out for the Dark Side

If you're conscientious, you're probably hard-working, responsible, and reliable—all good qualities, as long you don't let them destroy your life and health.

How to Speak Up for Yourself with Wisdom and Courage

Do you need to learn to speak up for yourself? Here's how to recognize when you need to speak up, and how to make sure you'll be heard.

Can’t Sleep? Here’s the First Thing You Should Try

Do you struggle with sleeplessness or poor quality sleep? Try this simple tool to figure out what might be wrong, and how to fix it.

Help for Anxiety: Facing Your Fears Will Heal Your Brain

Are your fears and anxiety holding you and your life hostage? You can reprogram your brain to be less anxious, and leave those fears behind. It's simpler than you think.

How to Set Up Your Environment to Help You Lose Weight

If you're struggling to lose weight and can't get your food habits under control, there's a good chance the problem isn't your willpower. It's your environment.

Living With Purpose Will Help You to Stop Comparing

Do you continually look at the lives of other people and wish yours was better? Purposefully turn your attention back to your own life, and watch it be transformed.

6 Ways That Night-time Phone Use Destroys Your Sleep

Struggling with insomnia and poor quality sleep? Frequently wake up unrefreshed? If you use your phone at night, there's a good chance that it's to blame. Here's why.

3 Critical Signs of Burnout

The word "burnout" gets thrown around a lot today. These three key signs indicate that you are truly burning out from too much stress at the workplace.

Choose Courage Instead of Reacting in Fear

Are you habitually anxious or fearful? You can choose to be courageous, instead of letting fear continue to control you. Really.

5 Ways to Use Kindness to Defuse a Difficult Person

When someone is rude, unfriendly, or unkind, do you let it affect you? Here are some thoughts and techniques that can defuse and even transform a difficult exchange.

Feeling Unmotivated? Decide to Live With Discipline

Is there something that you need to start doing in your life, but just can't get motivated to do? Waiting to feel motivated is a mistake. Decide to live with discipline, instead.

How to Stop Comparing Yourself to Others

Do you frequently look at others and feel insecure, envious, or discontented? Here's how to break this unhelpful, misery-provoking habit.

Procrastinating Your Creative Work? Push Through and Do It

Some of the best, most prolific artists struggle daily with procrastination and avoidance. Learn to expect this and deal with it, and you'll finally start doing your creative work.

The Joy of Living “Tiny”

"Tiny" homes and small urban spaces have surged in popularity, in response to limited affordability and availability of housing. Who knew they'd be so much fun?

How to Get More Sleep

If you're having a hard time getting a good night's sleep, chances are you need to make at least one (if not all) of these simple changes.

Envy and Your Facebook Feed

Do you feel envious when scrolling through Facebook? Might others feel envious when looking at what you post? Here's why both matter.

7 Ways to Calm Your Worried Mind and Reduce Anxiety

Just because you've "always been a worrier" doesn't mean you have to stay that way. These evidence-based tips help to decrease anxiety and could even heal your worried brain.

7 Tips to Avoid Getting Sick This Fall and Winter

As outside temperatures drop, it can seem like everyone around you is sneezing and coughing. Follow these basic tips to decrease your chances of catching a cold or flu bug.

Add Years to Your Life: Make Family and Friends a Priority

Does the pace of your life and all its demands feel like it's killing you? Spend more time with beloved friends and family, it just may (literally) save your life.

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