“For any athlete, rest and recovery are extremely important features of high performance, and getting a good quality sleep is vital for that to happen,” confirms Kirstie Griffiths, D.C., chiropractor and yoga teacher. Research backs this up too, showing that sleep is one of the most important recovery tools for athletes1, both physically and mentally2. That’s why it’s critical for every kind of athlete to have a mattress that fits their needs and creates a restful recovery environment....

Turns out, getting a supportive snooze is extra important for back pain sufferers, so we spoke with chiropractors to find out how to choose the best mattress for your needs. Rest assured that the following 10 picks will have your back. “Without the healing benefits of a good night’s rest, the injury may last longer, and therefore pain levels last longer too,” says Jacinta Di Prinzio, D.C., of Open Space Healing in Western Australia....

You can branch out and drink many different kinds of tea in one day — it’s merely a matter of finding the right kind of tea to match the mood, meal, or time of day. To start the day off, try white tea — it has a light aromatic quality with subtle, nuanced flavors, which may be more apparent in the morning when the palette is still fresh. Unlike drinking green or black tea on an empty stomach, when I drink white tea before breakfast it doesn’t tend to cause discomfort....

Our mental state always has an effect on our partner, children, and anyone else living in our household. When you and your partner both have depression, it’s incredibly important for you to have super-clear boundaries. Each person in the relationship has to take responsibility for their own mental health by cultivating self-awareness, California therapist Kim Egel tells mbg. “Depression shows up differently for each of us, and having awareness as to how your depression presents will help you communicate its effects with more flow and ease to your partner,” Egel says....

“In this moment of saturated overstimulation and goal-driven ‘out there-ness,’ oracle decks, by contrast, return us to the serene self-possession of our internal heartbeats,” she says. “Rather than tools of prediction that herald what might happen to us, I see them as present-moment private psychic hotlines, leading us back to the innate knowledge and inherent instincts we can already sense in our blood and our bones.” Whether or not you believe that oracle cards hold any kind of energetic power or magic, the act of thinking of a question and interpreting a potential answer can still be valuable....

Catfishing, aka online romantic fraud, is still alive and well these days. According to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, online romance scams reported to the FBI tripled between 2012 and 2016, and the Better Business Bureau reports that Americans have reported losses of nearly $1 billion due to romance scams. One company that screens profiles for dating companies told the BBB that 500,000 of the 3.5 million profiles it scans every month are fake....

The differences lie in the amount of time the two processes take, how and where they’re done, and what their end results are. “One of the biggest advantages of vermicomposting is that worm compost often has a much higher nutrient content than traditional compost,” adds Matt Eddleston, a gardener with over 20 years of experience and founder of Gardening Vibe. Composting also requires more physical activity because you need to layer the compost pile and turn it often, about once a week....