As a single mom, it’s easy for dating to get pushed to the back burner—but remember that you need and deserve love, intimacy, and excitement in your life. A healthy relationship also provides you with the support, contentment, and overall improved well-being that helps you show up as an even better parent to your kids. And as couples’ therapist Kyle Zrenchik, Ph.D., LMFT, ACS, points out, the kids benefit too: “They can see love shared between two people, shared decision making, and even what healthy conflict looks like,” he tells mbg....

“Erotic hypnosis has a way of enhancing the things that the subject already enjoys. It can draw things out that would otherwise stay hidden, allow the hypnotee to be more sensitive, and lower inhibition if that’s what they want,” hypnodomme and certified hypnotist Katherine Dire tells mbg. “It’s a way of playing with sexuality in a way that is a little indirect.” Then, the hypnotist suggests you into a trance. During hypnosis, a person’s attention leaves their immediate environment and clings to “inner experiences such as feelings, cognition, and imagery,” according to research1 by hypnotherapist Ann Williamson....

If you’ve been itching to join the running community, it may seem simple enough (you just put one foot in front of the other, right?). But if you’ve never pounded the proverbial pavement before, you may have a few lingering questions. To home in on that form, posture and foot placement are key, says Danny Mackey, the head coach of Brooks Beasts pro running team. “Form is nuanced to the individual,” he says, “but I would advise to make sure when you start, you’re looking 10 to 20 meters ahead (not down or up) to maintain posture, and try to use your entire foot when you land....

I’m here thanks to my old friend Bradley Willcox, who, along with his brother, Craig, and economist Makoto Suzuki, authored The Okinawa Program. Willcox is currently a professor and director of research at the Department of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. When I asked him to introduce me to an older Chinese American woman who might be willing to cook with me, he instantly replied, “Ruth is the one....

In response to those thoughts, which may or may not be founded in some truth, a person coping with this fear of abandonment may become clingy, insecure, jealous, emotionally manipulative, or even controlling. Typically, this is a learned response. Perhaps they saw adults react this way when they were kids, or maybe their close friends in early adulthood responded to rejection in this way. The normalization of these kinds of unhealthy tendencies can go on for quite some time....

If you think you might be bisexual, you might be experiencing a mix of feelings: perhaps confusion, a bit of fear, and maybe, just maybe, a bit of excitement as you’re starting to identify this part of yourself. Ahead, we talk about how to know if you may be bisexual and what to do next if that may be the case. Although the term was traditionally associated with attraction toward men and women, specifically, our understanding of sexual orientation and gender has evolved, and today bisexuality is not boxed as binary....

To address what you are no doubt thinking: No, I am not a frigid, antisocial, boring buzzkill. In fact, if I do say so myself, I’m actually quite fun and outgoing when I need to be. I am, however, a very deep processor, extremely aware of the emotions of myself and others, and an avid appreciator of little things in life that often go unnoticed—in other words, I am a textbook example of what is referred to as an HSP, or a highly sensitive person....