I’ve noticed that many people are prone to confuse intuition with fear when they’re trying to get answers to something they’re already stressed about. But when you’re already wound up about a problem, you will project that fear onto everything else around you. Let’s say you don’t know if your job contract will be renewed and you have a difficult boss. This is a super-stressful situation. Your livelihood depends on the job, the job depends on the relationship you have with the boss—so you’re understandably fearful....

Iron deficiency gets all of the spotlight, but other causes and types of anemia also exist and can affect the body in similar ways—causing fatigue, generalized weakness, shortness of breath, irregular heartbeat, pale skin, and neurological symptoms like headache, brain fog, depression, or dizziness. However, many people who are anemic don’t realize that their anemia is even linked to their symptoms. Others aren’t properly tested to determine if they’re truly anemic and what the root cause is....

Though research is sparse, plenty of people still swear by the colonic. Before determining if this is right for you, it’s important to understand how it works and the potential risks and side effects. When going in for a colonic irrigation procedure, you can expect to disrobe and don the ever-fashionable hospital gown. You’ll lie on a treatment table, and the practitioner will begin the procedure by inserting a tube into your rectum....

However, even to the untrained eye, one type of hyperpigmentation may stand out among the rest: the “melasma mustache,” as many call it. Here, we’ll explain what causes this concentrated hyperpigmentation and what to do about it. “Although melasma can occur in men, it’s much more common in women and more common in those taking oral contraceptive pills and during pregnancy,” board-certified dermatologist Rebecca Marcus, M.D., tells mbg. Clinical studies1 show that UV radiation is the most common initial trigger of melasma, as well as the main factor exacerbating preexisting patches....

On a recent episode of the mindbodygreen podcast, physician and renowned speaker Gabor Maté, M.D., bestselling author of The Myth of Normal, explains how trauma can subtly pass from one generation to the next—here’s his take on generational trauma and how to begin working through it. In fact, Maté states that 95% of trauma is multigenerational. “You unwittingly pass it on. That’s just how it works,” he adds. The trauma doesn’t necessarily impact the genetic makeup of those to come but rather how those genes get triggered, he explains....

Thinking about the color brown itself, which is linked with Earth—it makes sense that these are going to be grounded, material folks. On top of that, Merrick tells mbg, auras can also become brown when someone is moving through muck and mud, so to speak, and being stubborn or getting too muddled by the goings-on of their lives. “Brown is made from every color, so in that sense, you might be feeling more stuck, stubborn, or needing to make decisions but don’t have clarity,” Merrick explains, adding you could also be feeling judgmental and/or triggered when brown appears in your aura....

That was the heart of the concern a woman named Brandy came to me with. She couldn’t feel the feeling of love, other than what she occasionally got from her husband or others. Many people have variations of this same issue: They’re seeking out the warm feeling we refer to as love, which they mainly associate with being head-over-heels infatuated with a partner and receiving similar affection from them. But this isn’t what love looks like or feels like—in fact, it can be a barrier to experiencing the real love we crave....