Here’s what to know about the ENTJ personality type. “These natural leaders can be described as curious, energetic, self-confident, pragmatic, creative problem solvers, and decisive,” Hackston tells mbg, adding, “Those who have personality preferences for ENTJ are verbally fluent and get energized by interacting with people, exchanging ideas, and making things happen.” Take entrepreneur Bill Gates as a prime example of an ENTJ. This type isn’t discouraged by a challenge. In fact, they love it and have had historical success in making great achievements in everything from politics to business....

Beyond providing yet another way to categorize your personality, handwriting has even been shown to provide clues about mental health and predict one’s likelihood of professional success1 in some cases. The concept was invented by the French, he notes, and to become a graphologist, you typically have to study for around five to seven years. Beck has over 40 years of experience in graphology himself and says the ways in which someone deviates from the “standard” way to write (whether that be size, spacing, etc....

By establishing lifestyle and dietary practices that support the body’s internal functions and optimize overall wellness, health coaches help people find the tools they need to make better choices and achieve their health goals effectively. Further, health coaches’ 360-degree approach to health enables them to work with clients comprehensively as they build self-care skills, habits, and healthy behaviors that help them thrive. Following a training program, which can last between three to 24 months, health coaches must pass a final test to become certified, and in some cases, apply for the national board certification examination....

What is this couple doing? In sex therapy we call it “simmering.” Simmering means taking a quick moment to feel excited with your partner, even under conditions where sex is not going to be practical. That generally means no orgasms, no rhythmic stroking, no heavy breathing. Nothing that’s going to leave you too frustrated after you have to stop. Couples who are overworked and distracted (i.e., most of us) often neglect to get aroused in each other’s company unless they intend to have sex....

Some people may take that as a throwaway comment, but it’s a common relationship refrain that should be activating your Spidey senses. It signals a call to action, an indication that your partner doesn’t feel close to you, and it’s leading to disconnection. But what does it mean to have an emotional connection with someone anyway? “Just like children, adults need to feel a secure attachment to another adult,” couples therapist Josie Rosario, LMSW, MSed, explains to mbg....

Aristotle first raised the concept of lucid dreaming in his treatise On Dreams in the fourth century BCE, but the practice wasn’t studied scientifically until the 1970s1. Since then, it has been validated as a “hybrid state of consciousness2 with definable and measurable differences from waking and from REM sleep,” the sleep stage in which we dream. As you can imagine, lucid dreaming opens the door to quite a lot of fun, author of Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self Robert Waggoner tells mbg....

Then one day she casually mentioned that she craved fruit. For the last seven months, Margaret had been following Weight Watchers, a popular weight-loss program that assigns zero points for fruit. In other words, she could eat all the fruit she wanted and often did. That excess sugar—yes, even in Weight Watchers–approved fresh fruit—fed Margaret’s yeast overgrowth, which caused her to crave more sugar. Your best protection against yeast overgrowth is a normal acidic stomach pH....