Rachel Wilkerson Miller

Find a primary care doctor you trust, make time for creativity, or stop texting while driving once and for all.

I’m young, I live in a city, I’m not outdoorsy…but I love it anyway.

Loss can be terribly isolating, but art can be a soothing balm that helps you feel less alone.

Including a great hair dryer, luscious body butter, and ice packs that’ll keep your cooler frigid for hours.

Tomorrow I’m heading to one of my favorite places in the US: Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island in Maine. This will be the third year in a row that my girlfriend and I have taken a fall trip there, and I’m feeling like a seasoned pro at this point—I think I have a pretty strong handle on what it takes to thrive both in the park and when tooling around the tiny, lovely town of Bar Harbor, where we stay. I want to be clear: I am not an Outdoors Person. I’m not looking to camp and I prefer…

True story: When I was interviewing for the role of editor in chief of SELF—by far the most intense hiring process I’ve ever been through—I pulled up Homecoming on Netflix multiple times, usually the nights before the biggest conversations, when I really needed to hype myself up. I knew the combination of Beyoncé’s unmatched commitment to excellence and her incredible music would make me feel confident and capable…and, beyond that, unstoppable. Like I could lift a car over my head. Who the fuck…

This article is part of SELF’s second annual Rest Week, an editorial package dedicated to doing less. If the last few years have taught us anything, it’s that taking care of yourself, physically and emotionally, is impossible without genuine downtime. With that in mind, we’ll be publishing articles up until the new year to help you make a habit of taking breaks, chilling out, and slowing down. (And we’re taking our own advice: The SELF staff will be OOO during this time!) We hope to inspire you…

January has, unfortunately, become the time of year when a lot of people feel a strong urge to punish themselves. Sure, they may do it under the guise of “health,” or perhaps they will dress it up as a “lifestyle change,” but it’s often rooted in something negative: The idea that they are not enough. As a bunch of journalists who are constantly thinking about what it means to be truly “well,” we wanted to offer you something different and more positive for 2024: A set of gentle guidelines—rooted…

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Robots, chess pieces, bedazzled boxing gloves...put these one-pieces in the Louvre already.