8 Health Conditions That Could Be Disrupting Your Sleep

Getting a good night’s sleep is crucial for your health — those ZZZs help keep your immune system strong, blood sugar under control, and can even ward off weight gain. In theory, getting eight hours of pillow time sounds great. But, even if you do everything the experts recommend, like creating a dark and cool […]

8 Health Conditions That Could Be Disrupting Your Sleep

Getting a good night’s sleep is crucial for your health — those ZZZs help keep your immune system strong, blood sugar under control, and can even ward off weight gain. In theory, getting eight hours of pillow time sounds great. But, even if you do everything the experts recommend, like creating a dark and cool […]

The Best Spa and Wellness Treatments in the Bay Area

Sunspots? Stiff neck? From stress and muscle pain to wrinkles and other skin problems, there’s a treatment out there that can help! Here are the hottest celebrity-approved skin, mind and body treatments of the moment—along with some of the best spas, wellness centers and resorts in the Bay Area where you can try them. Acupuncture A […]

Midlife Depression: Common Causes and What You Can Do About It

One in five women and one in six men will experience depression at some point in their lives. Given the prevalence of depression, it is important to know the signs of midlife depression, its causes and, most importantly, what you can do about it. Signs of Depression While everyone experiences sadness on occasion, it is […]

Talk About It, Please! Adolescent Depression and Suicide

There, but for the grace of God—and many good professionals and others who understand teen depression—go I. My family could have suffered the same tragedy as several Lake Forest families who lost adolescents to suicide in recent months. My heart breaks for these families suffering the ultimate pain: Three Lake Forest High School students were […]

May 15th Erika’s Lighthouse Annual “Rock & Rally” Walkathon

You know their names. You know their faces. You think you know them, until you don’t. They are the 15-20% of our children and adolescents who suffer with depression, many of whom statistically will not survive high school, leaving their communities to wonder what they could have done. This year, you can do something. Join […]

Tap Your Way to Marriott Theatre’s “42nd Street”

An energetic ensemble cast, combined with expert tap dancing and gorgeous costumes, makes “42nd Street” at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire a must-see. Before appearing on the Broadway stage in the 1980s, “42nd Street” was a movie musical that came out during the Depression, serving as pleasant distraction amid bread lines and surging unemployment. With […]