Ceremonies & Celebrations

For women, gathering with friends is essential to managing stress. Corrales Grief Spa, at The Oasis in New Mexico, offers personalized wellness retreats designed to help friends reconnect. In 2000, psychologist Shelley E. Taylor and her team at UCLA published a landmark paper in Psychological Review that fundamentally challenged fifty years of stress research....

A cultural shift is happening around how we mark the biggest moments of our lives, and it has very little to do with guest counts or seating charts. Across weddings, divorces, and the loss of a loved one, people are choosing the same thing: intimacy over spectacle, meaning over tradition, and a setting that...