Here’s why jet lag really happens, who it tends to hit the hardest, and how to minimize its impact trip by trip. It occurs when we change time zones too quickly for our internal clocks to catch up to our new surroundings. If, for example, you fly from Los Angeles to New York City in one day, come 11 p.m. at your destination, your body will still feel like it’s 8 p....
Below, an overview of the lotus sex position and a few tips on how to master it. “This configuration leaves two face-to-face bodies pressed tightly together, which can be intimate, sweet, and sexy,” says Good Vibrations sexologist Carol Queen, Ph.D. Well, if you’re craving more intimacy and romance in your sex sessions, the lotus position is perfect. It offers the opportunity for kissing, full-body embraces, and nonstop eye contact. “Incorporate eye-gazing, in-sync breathing, and touching your foreheads (your third eye) together to increase the feeling of connection even more,” suggests Barbara Carrellas, ACS, sexologists, tantra educator, and author of Urban Tantra: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century....
“I use storytelling to disrupt what is with the possibility of what can be,” Rivas says on his website, describing a mission that has seen him collaborate with everyone from the WWE to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. We caught up with Rivas to talk storytelling, the dangers of productivity, his path to meditation and Buddhism (it started with a college crush), and his vision for making wellness more accessible....
These genetic variants (known more scientifically as single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs) have gained attention for the way they affect your ability to process and use the essential B vitamin folate and, thereby, affect a globally important (i.e., literally affects whole-body health) biochemical process called methylation. MTHFR, or methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase, is an enzyme that converts dietary folate (from foods like leafy greens) and folic acid (from fortified foods and certain supplements) into a bioactive, methylated form called 5-methyltetrahydrofolate (5-MTHF)....
Here, licensed psychotherapists Carrie Mead, LCPC, and Kimberly Perlin, LCSW-C, explain the telltale signs of narcissistic abuse, how narcissistic abuse syndrome is diagnosed, and offer tips to heal from a toxic relationship with a narcissist. “It is a form of relating with another where one demeans and controls the other,” Perlin explains. She says whether the control is explicit, (e.g., I don’t want you going over to your mother’s house) or more subtle (e....
In reality, there are many times when desire and physical arousal don’t match. In fact, physical arousal (genital response) is distinct from subjective arousal1 (active mental engagement in sex), and the lingering confusion about this distinction can contribute to many people’s insecurity or concern within their own sex lives and—at worst—can blur the meaning of true consent. “Arousal concordance and non-concordance describe the simultaneous physical manifestation (or lack thereof) of a mental and emotional state of arousal,” physician and sexuality counselor Dr....
Of the 78 cards in a traditional tarot deck, the Queen of Wands, often called “the witch of the deck,” is widely considered one of the most auspicious. Here’s what the card means, plus what it might say about your love life, career, and more. Despite depicting a woman, Vanderveldt notes this card doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with gender, explaining that “the court cards (Pages, Knights, Queens, and Kings) show up to remind you to tap into certain energies that you possess and let those energies guide you in the way you move through the world....
