Say “Yes!” Such a simple word, yet sometimes so hard to say! Being a stay-at-home mom, I feel like all I do all day long is say yes to my kids, so, at times, when my spouse asks for things it just feels easier to say, ‘no.’ How great would it be treat him the same way I do my kids, and say YES to EVERYTHING he asks/requests in a night (not that I say yes to everything my kids ask :), but you know what I mean)....

Yet we often fail to recognize the same signs of stress and overwhelm in ourselves. We take on work projects, make plans with friends, push ourselves to go to the gym, keep up with the news, and tackle new recipes, then question why it is we feel so frazzled and burnt out. As philosopher Alain de Botton explains, sometimes we just need to keep things simple. “What registers as anxiety is typically no freakish phenomenon; it is the mind’s logical enraged plea not to be continuously and exhaustingly overstimulated,” he says....

If you’re unfamiliar with the feature, it’s nothing huge to stress about. When composing a message using Gboard on any supported app on Android devices, you can combine two compatible emojis to get unique mashups. You have to simply select the two emojis as you already do in the text field. Whenever possible, Gboard will create a hybrid emoji combining the two and show the result just below the text field....

Because there’s a chance you may have been bumped. No, not bumped from the list. Rather, your reservation may have been bumped up. Q4 reservations for the Steam Deck wouldn’t have started to ship until at least October. And shipments would last through the end of the year. However, because Valve continues to crank out these machines quicker and quicker, it’s blowing through reservation shipments. Some Q4 reservations for the Steam Deck may ship by the end of September Some Q4 reservations for the Steam Deck may ship by the end of September...

Meeting the teacher from Hagerstown, and others like her, told me that mindfulness is reaching beyond the big cities now and into the towns and villages, and it’s being delivered by people who care a lot about the health and well-being of our communities—in every dimension: bodily health, mental health, education, social cohesion, and more. At Mindful magazine and in mindful.org, it’s our mission to present mindfulness, awareness, kindness, and compassion to a wider audience, and we’ve been hard at work doing that....