When it came to worrying, my mother was an Olympian — with good reason: Sally escaped the Cossacks to come to America. But the one thing I never wanted to replicate about my upbringing was inspiring ...

Every family needs a worrier — a person who worries about everything from world peace to whether we’re out of lunch meat. Someone, after all, has to worry about whether the house will get robbed, the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Editor’s Note: This is the first of a two-part series. Everyone worries from time to time, but to find out how severe a worrier you are, take the following quiz, adapted from Edward M. Hollowell’s ...

From the onslaught of testing that starts in grade school to the race to get into the most prestigious colleges, kids today are under more stress than ever. But when the pressure is high, does your ...

SI producer Tom Wilson is a worrier. During Spring Training he worries about what could derail the Dodgers' 2020 season; about who could get hurt. In this episode of "Between Three Palms," titled ...

Do you tell yourself that you have to worry and then feel guilty if you try not to worry? In my new self-help book, The Dutiful Worrier: How to Stop Compulsive Worry without Feeling Guilty, I look ...

I'm a worrier. It's at least partially genetic—my grandma's a worrier, my mom's a worrier, and odds are my hypothetical rugrats will also be worriers. I stress about big things like my career and ...

Humans exist on a continuum no matter the measure. Functional capacity across domains is a product of what we have in our genes and what we do in our jeans. How much of what is in our DNA defines our ...