Linda Buzzell

Psychotherapist, ecotherapist, co-editor of "Ecotherapy: Healing With Nature in Mind"

My own search for a daily spiritual practice that doesn't shrink from reality but offers a link to the best in life and spirit has led me to create a simple prayer to center my days.

J. Kate Franklin

Avid traveler, documentary film producer

When we approach everything with kindness, it all gets a little easier to bear -- the good, the bad and ugly.

Mark Nepo

Author, New York Times bestseller 'The Book of Awakening'

This is the inspiring lesson of Beethoven's Opus 131: It mirrors the nonstop demand of life to have us make music of what we're given, not knowing what will happen. Inevitably, having to play seven movements without pause, the instruments will go out of tune.

David Katz, M.D.

Director, Yale Prevention Research Center

There are, I think, two dilemmas that complicate the reconciliation of wanting what we have and having what we want. Let's refer to them as the "night on call" conundrum and the "wrinkle in time" fallacy.

Nancy Colier

Psychotherapist, interfaith minister, writer and public speaker

If you listen to the contents of your internal dialogue, it is often a running description of the experience that you are actually living now. That is to say, you are continually telling yourself the story of your life, even though you are the one supposedly living it.

Matthew B. James, Ph.D.

President of The Empowerment Partnership; Author of "Find Your Purpose, Master Your Path"

Forgiveness applies to all the big as well as all the small wrongs you experience -- whether real or imagined. Doing it on a regular basis frees up your energy again and gets you back on track.

Jonathan Alpert

Licensed psychotherapist, executive coach, columnist, and author of "Be Fearless: Change Your Life in 28 Days"

As a psychotherapist and coach, I'm in the unique position to hear from both men and women what they hate and love about online dating. I hear about red flags, things that work, and things that freak people out.

Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben, Ph.D.

Author, 'Becoming Jewish: The Challenges, Rewards, and Paths to Conversion'

Every one of us has the exact same power within to transform our lives at any moment. Each of us has available every single day the exact same magic formula.

Margaret Paul, Ph.D.

Bestselling author and relationship expert

Life changes when you make it okay to fail. To me, the only true failure is not making an effort toward what brings you joy, and the only way you can do this is by making it okay to fail.

Laurie Gerber

President of Handel Group Life Coaching

My vacation was mostly great, but I made one mistake. My hope is that I catch you before you leave for your vacations and help you design them, so you maximize relaxing and having fun with your loved ones. This is an important area of life.

Michelle Renee

Author, speaker, ExtremeResiliency.com

To be resilient we have to be connected to that voice inside of us that says stop and notice what is in front of you and all around you that is good and beautiful and pure.

Stephenie Zamora

Founder, StephenieZamora.com

The act of taking one small action will help you feel like you're moving, because YOU ARE! Don't let the fact that you're working at a job you hate keep you from taking action. Make a list of little things you can do to move forward and start doing them every day!

Marina Chetner

Writer, yogini, avid traveler

To find out more about the competitors' motivations, I went to the source: four yoga asana champions. After my experience at the internationals, I wasn't surprised that their words spoke to personal growth and camaraderie, and not oneupmanship. You be the judge.

Joanna Montgomery

Wife, mother, writer, survivor

We talk about not "sweating the small stuff" and "going with the flow," but how many of us really practice this in our lives? I don't know why any of us has to have a near death experience to chill the eff out -- it doesn't have to be that way, does it?