Looking for a new exercise to try come abs day? Leg lifts can be a great addition to the mix—just make sure you’re doing this move properly. Also known as leg raises, this exercise is ideal for strengthening your core—the lower abdominals—and it doesn’t take many of them to start feeling the burn. It’s crucial…
August 20, 2021 — 11:17 AM Focusing on reproductive health isn’t just about having babies. In fact, many of the holistic lessons for supporting reproduction are important for well-being overall. Take it from environmental and reproductive epidemiologist Shanna Swan, Ph.D.: “The lifestyle factors that matter for health are those that matter for reproduction,” she says on…
August 20, 2021 — 9:28 AM “Beauty supplement” is a bit of an elusive term. By definition, they’re capsules, powders, gummies, or liquids with healthy ingredients for skin, hair, and nails, but so many ingredients can fall under this umbrella.* (We explain all the ingredients to look for here, if you’re curious.) Not to mention,…
Our editors have independently chosen the products listed on this page. If you purchase something mentioned in this article, we may earn a small commission. August 20, 2021 — 9:07 AM We’ve all felt stress at one point or another, and we know how quickly it can add up. With so much going on in…
August 20, 2021 — 1:58 AM Ever interacted with someone who seemed to be expressing interest in you…by making fun of you? This confusing behavior is known as negging, and oddly, it’s often used as a form of flirting. We all desire and deserve healthy, mutually supportive relationships, but sometimes we can find ourselves entangled…
What’s the difference between platonic and romantic love? Both have the power to make your life better than it was before. But each brings something different. If you enjoy romantic fiction, you know about the “friends to lovers” trope. It’s a popular one. But you want to know what makes platonic love different from romantic…
Losing someone, whether to death or the end of a relationship, is the most painful experience you’ll ever face. Your grief is so profound and overwhelming that it’s impossible to express the depths of your despair. If you have lost someone, or you know someone who has, these grief poems and poetry about loss can…
What can an attitude list do to help you become the person you want to be? To make positive changes in your life and how you respond to challenges, you need to see where you are now. How do you react when things go wrong? How do you respond to people who criticize, undermine, or…
So many big houses. Why do we want such big houses? To protect, to surround, to cushion. To collect, to secure, to establish our kingdom. Big houses are empty spaces that we fill, from our fear of being out in the open, in bare nakedness, vulnerable to external forces we think are out to get…
Grief just sucks. There is no way around that. Society tries to push us to bypass trauma – to push our negative feelings aside and “get back to life” as quickly as possible. Getting “back to life” usually means back to our old life. To our old job, friends, interests. We try to numb our…
