Louisa Kamps

It turns out there's no need for speed. A long, head-clearing walk brings many of the same benefits—to body, mind, and spirit—as a jog or even a sprint. Lean into this low-impact, all-ages exercise, and unlock the upsides of hitting your stride. By Louisa Kamps

Your kid is starting high school or—swallow hard—college. Experts share their advice on helping them crush (or at least survive) the frosh challenges. Here’s the ultimate freshman orientation (for parents).

A smart, doable routine can give your body and brain a real lift.

A twinge between the shoulder blades, a knot above your hip. The culprit is often something we do every day: sit, and sit, and sit some more. Here's how to shift your habits to support the muscles that protect your spine—and prevent future pain, too.

Simple strategies to help your child weather life's rainy days and tough times.

These loose, laid-back days have a quiet superpower: They naturally kick-start the healthy habits that will help you feel stronger, fitter, and sharper year-round. Go ahead and play like a kid, and be a regular at the farmers' market—it's the easiest time of the year to become your best self.

The groundbreaking, remarkably effective, and more-than-a-little-trippy new treatment for severe trauma.

Scientists have discovered an amazingly simple way to get through tough times, deepen relationships, and feel happier every day: Try a little tenderness—toward yourself.

Science suggests that divorce can spread from couple to couple to couple, from neighborhood to neighborhood. Louisa Kamps explores a new therapy to help people combat the contagion and learn how to cope with their own misgivings about marriage

Want to improve your memory, concentration, and creativity? New studies show that New Age brain-training apps can't hold a candle to one old-timey hobby: quilting.

Are you reading this on your phone? According to our analytics, there's a 50% chance that you are.

Count your blessings. Say "thank you." Consider yourself lucky. They're directives our parents gave us so we would grow into decent people with decent manners. It turns out, the same advice helps make our brains and bodies healthier, too.

Improving a long-term relationship can be grueling, but what if you, your partner, or both of you could make things easier by taking a pill? Would you? Louisa Kamps reports

Who says it's wrong to love the things we wear—like, really love them? Presenting five women whose curatorial focus—devoted to everything from tiny, tough wearable sculptures to light-as-air lace blouses—lends powerful individuality to their personal style.

No stranger to challenging designs, fashion-world fixture Cecilia Dean has worn, arrestingly, everything from a giant white sail-shaped Philip Treacy hat that gave the appearance of a small Calatrava perched atop her head, to one of Commes des Garçons' iconic "bump" dresses, with small, pillowy nodes lumped irregularly across its backside.

Whether it's by trying a new lipstick or undergoing a major overhaul, there's nothing like tweaking one's appearance to open new horizons—both in body and mind. This month, we celebrate beauty transformations great and small: those that bring us closer to who we want to be, and those that simply deliver a (very worthwhile) flash of joy

Hopscotching across cultures and countries, Louisa Kamps found a novel way to connect: by putting herself—and her hair—in the hands of strangers

From a punk-rock eyeliner to an editor- approved pressed powder, Louisa Kamps' beauty talismans infuse her future with power from her past.

When Louisa Kamps decamped from America's fashion capital to the bucolic setting of her childhood, she shelved her well-curated wardrobe for the uniform of her milieu—roomy, anonymous, sexless. But this season, she's back. She's so back.

Tall and curvy, Louisa Kamps always thought her clothes had to be short and tight to fight--or flaunt--her shape. But that was before she tried on this season's remarkable new oversize styles.

Once you start clicking through Brittle Paper, the sprawling digital magazine Ainehi Edoro created to chronicle African literature and literary culture, it’s hard to stop. One link takes you to a blurb covering the Oxford English Dictionary’s recent inclusion of 29 Nigerian words, the next to a hefty profile of a globally influential British-Zimbabwean fiction editor who’s opening doors for many writers from Africa and the African diaspora.

In her new book, "Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World," Gates details how fear and resistance proved to be "a painful step on the way to a deeper commitment."

Author and therapist Lori Gottlieb pulls back the curtain on what people really say when they're "on the couch."

In a world where navel-gazing is almost a cliche, psychiatrist Mark Epstein proposes a new, very old way: Curb your ego

Just when we need it most, a bevy of books extolling the Danish mantra of camaraderie and coziness, in a Scandinavian-chic package, hits our shores.

Sorry is the hardest word, but it may be the most useful one, especially in this era of acute political polarization and loose talk of violent retaliation. Psychologist Harriet Lerner schools Louisa Kamps in the art of the apology

Now here's how to use it. A new book illuminates ways women can hone their innate advantages—and avoid the pitfalls—on all the playing fields.

We tend to think that stress can only rush us to early grave. But there's good and growing evidence that stress can be really, really good for us—fueling productivity, enhancing our relationships, even improving our health—if we learn to think about it differently.

By the time I arrived in New York at 24, I was already a weary veteran of what social psychologists call “identity work”—the burdens women shoulder to navigate workplaces too often rife with sexual objectification and harassment.

Let's admit it: We're obsessed with the S-word. Louisa Kamps follows our evolving relationship with it, plus how we track and define it.

Two new books argue for an Organization Woman 2.0: one who knows the value of friendship in the office

We tend to think that stress can only rush us to early grave. But there's good and growing evidence that stress can be really, really good for us—fueling productivity, enhancing our relationships, even improving our health—if we learn to think about it differently.

Pro tips on dodging, overcoming, and untangling the garbled messages (spoken and unspoken) of old-school workplace sexism with ingenuity, determination, and truly intelligent coaching.

Feeling dull? Logy? Uninspired? A band of psychologists, neuroscientists, and business gurus have a raft of new techniques to help you tap into your creativity.

What do do when faced with today's pandemic of bad behavior by the no-Golden-Rule-for-me-thanks zombie horde? Louisa Kamps ponders her temptation to liberally apply the A-word—and gives herself a time out.

Our writer discovered that a lot of her time-saving desires were sucking up all of her...time. So she detoxed and saw her creativity—and output—rise.

The first step to financial recovery, Louisa Kamps learns, is cluing in to our boneheaded behaviors.

Why do some people get ahead while others are perpetually stuck at the bottom? Louisa Kamps investigates ambition—where it really comes from, why it can be hard to maintain, and how to get some of that mojo back.

As a defiant fist shake to the bitter Midwestern winter—with its short days and limited pantry—chef Tory Miller and the staff at Madison, Wisconsin's L'Etoile follow an entertainingly dorky afternoon of broomball with a brilliant dinner featuring local winter-white ingredients.

How retracing a trip I took as a child with my own son brought me back, beautifully.

On a Midwestern road trip, a writer zigzags from one small-town cafe to another in search of spectacular pie. Here she extols her favorite discoveries and the bakers behind them—some sweet as peaches, others tart as rhubarb.

With cracked vinyl, plastic flowers and the occasional polka band, Milwaukee's best bars are tiny strongholds of authenticity in a world full of imitation.

When I moved back to Wisconsin, my home state, two years ago, I couldn't help saluting the first huge sign I saw, just over the Illinois-Wisconsin border, for cheese curds—those squiggly, squeaky chunks of young cheddar we learn to love early here in America's Dairyland. Right along the Interstate to Milwaukee, there's a cluster of cheese-curd, porn and firecracker stores that has always made me wonder about the guy who would indulge in all three; but driving a distance to score curds alone—well, that makes sense to almost any Wisconsinite.