If that doesn’t describe you, your hormones are imbalanced. Don’t despair. You are not alone. Millions of women experience hormonal imbalance. The good news is, you can rebalance your hormones naturally and resolve your symptoms. If you’ve ever tried to sit on a three-legged stool, you know that only when each of the three legs is even and firmly in place can you sit down comfortably and confidently. If one leg is weak or shorter than the others or goes missing, you’ll lose your balance and fall, right?...

“We’ve gotten so good at the future that we’ve lost our ability to be happy and fulfilled in the present,” he continues. And being fully present is the foundation of long-lasting, successful relationships—familial, platonic, and romantic. Below, Lieberman offers his tips to better manage your dopamine and, in turn, save your relationships: “We’ve got to come out of dopamine [and] into the here and now to enjoy the things that we have,” he explains....

Right now, there’s a huge movement toward awakening. A lot of people are moving from identifying solely with their body to experiencing themselves as something much greater. When we start to wake up, we naturally develop a strong desire to know ourselves in a deep, intimate way. That’s what consciousness is—a desire to know all of oneself. Alongside this desire to know ourselves, a matching desire to create unbelievably deep, intimate relationships with others emerges as well....

Since collagen is the body’s most abundant protein and found in connective tissues, joints, and skin, we’d say it’s a pretty big deal.* But what exactly does collagen supplementation do for your mane? After all, hair is made of the protein keratin—not collagen. Well, we tapped some top experts to get the scoop on collagen and hair health including what collagen does for the hair, what to look for in a hair supplement, and whether it can, in fact, help with hair growth....

Let’s take a close look at the definition of passion for a moment, as it may change the way we approach passionate love. The word passion comes from the Latin, passio-, “to suffer.” Even disregarding the implications of “suffering,” one thing is clear: Passion necessarily involves intense emotional engagement. Yet so many couples lose sight of this. Once in a couple’s therapy session, my client Sam explained, “I guess I got used to turning off my emotions and just going through the moves in bed with Linda....

“Parenting can be particularly challenging for introverts because we lose so much of the alone time we had before our children were born,” Carla Naumburg, Ph.D., a Massachusetts-based clinical social worker and author of the forthcoming How To Stop Losing Your Sh*t With Your Kids, tells mbg. “The free time we once may have used to go for a walk alone or read a book or just sit and stare at the wall is now taken up by these little people who, as much as we love them, can be tremendously demanding, both emotionally and physically....

But for those of us in relationships, secret-keeping can have serious and damaging negative consequences. That said, even the smallest of secrets can affect relationships. Slepian, Halevy, and Galinsky’s study found carrying secrets is correlated with a negative sense of well-being, and that can affect the way partners interact with each other. The most significant secrets that affect couples are infidelity, financial problems, and substance abuse—and research suggests this type of secret-keeping is common and destructive....