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Don’t get caught up in the benchmarks and dreams of others. If "The Success Guidebook: How to Visualize, Actualize and Amplify You" by Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino teaches us anything, it’s that success is a personal thing.

Hamilton-Guarino, a master life coach and founder of The Best Ever You Network with millions of followers, takes readers...Read more

As director of behavioral research in the Kaiser Permanente Southern California Department of Research and Evaluation in Pasadena, Young's extensive body of work includes many studies about the healthy effects of physical activity – and the problems that come with inactivity. She also led the panel of experts who wrote an American Heart ...Read more

From Hannibal Lecter facials to freezing your face in ice, you never know what you’ll get from beauty secrets on TikTok.

The #FaceYoga hashtag — on posts that show users the alleged benefits of specific facial movements that could make you look younger — has more than 3 billion views on TikTok.

The practice was a beauty secret for ...Read more

'IF'

Rated PG for thematic elements and mild language.

What it’s about: A girl connects with a band of lonely "Ifs" — "imaginary friends" and tries to matchmake them with new kids.

The kid attractor factor: The animated characters and seemingly kid-friendly story.

Good lessons/bad lessons: It's important to stay connected to our inner ...Read more

SACRAMENTO — Yolo County has settled with parents’ rights group Moms for Liberty over an incident that took place at a Davis library last summer.

On Aug. 20 at the Mary L. Stephens Library branch, library staff abruptly ended a presentation, “Forum on Fair and Safe Sport for Girls,” in which members of Moms for Liberty, and other anti-...Read more

Q. My husband did multiple tours in Afghanistan and has had multiple head injuries. When he came home, he seemed disconnected and it was almost like he didn’t know us. My presence seemed to irritate him, he left the church, and we are now in the middle of a divorce. He met someone while we were still married and chooses to live with her. While...Read more

We just found out one of our granddaughters is planning her wedding. We were as surprised as anyone. She is 8.

Naturally, her mother was the first to know, as it should be. She became suspicious when Little Miss began wearing her best cardigan to school (the white one with pearl trim around the collar) over her best dressy dress (the one with ...Read more

CHICAGO -- On a small table adjacent to a red couch, Doris Hernandez keeps the last photo of her late son amid dozens of crosses, a rosary and a Bible with worn pages bearing the weight of countless prayers.

Hanging on the wall is a card he gave her as a child for Mother’s Day.

There’s also a gold notebook that she keeps on top of the ...Read more

Women who take birth control pills may be much less likely to experience two of the most common sports injuries. In fact, a new study showed women taking oral contraceptives were 85% less likely than men to sprain their muscles or strain their tendons.

Researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center studied data from more ...Read more

On a sunny spring afternoon, Alma Gonzalez was home alone folding laundry and talking on the phone to her husband, Jose.

She finished the chore and bent over to pick up the full basket. As she stood up, her head felt extremely heavy. She mentioned this to Jose. It was "the worst headache ever," she said. Maybe you're just tired, he said, and ...Read more

At the risk of sounding glib, it seems you can’t turn your head these days without alighting on a celebrity memoir — and that in all likelihood, its pages will be stuffed to the margins with trauma.

In the last two years, there’s been a veritable explosion of celebrity memoirs hinging on the traumatic upbringings, breakthroughs and adult ...Read more

Barb Odanaka remembers her struggles as a new mom and how skateboarding helped her push past those tough days with a newborn, a way to mentally and physically have an outlet away from the dirty diapers.

“The reality is, I was having a hard time transitioning to motherhood,” said Odanaka, now 61, who grew up skateboarding in Newport Beach in...Read more

'KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES'

Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence/action.

What it’s about: Set hundreds of years after the events of the last "Planet of the Apes" film, the story follows a young ape, Noa, as he encounters a charismatic ape king, Proximus Caesar, and fights to save his clan.

The kid attractor factor: ...Read more

Since becoming a father a few months ago, I’ve been nursing a grudge against something tiny, seemingly inconsequential, and often discarded: instructional manuals. Parenthood requires a lot of gadgetry to maintain a kid’s health and welfare. Those gadgets require puzzling over booklets, decoding inscrutable pictographs, and wondering whether...Read more