“Therapists are trained to help people who are struggling with mental illness, such as depression, anxiety, or PTSD. They diagnose, assess, and provide treatment of mental disorders,” Christine R. Melendres, LCSW, a licensed clinical social worker and therapist, recently told mbg. She adds that therapists can also help clients with crisis intervention, grief counseling, or processing and healing from past hurts and traumas. “Counselors typically provide short-term, solution-focused strategies to address behaviors that include exploring stressors, coping skills, and environmental factors contributing to behaviors which are negatively impacting one’s life,” says Angeleena Francis, LMHC, a licensed mental health counselor, therapist, and executive director at AMFM Healthcare in Washington....

Before we go on, we should note: Fine lines happen to us all at some point, and they are signs of a life well lived. Crow’s feet, for example, signal years spent laughing and smiling—and that’s a beautiful thing. “When we start to have less collagen and elastic fibers in skin as it ages, this very thin skin shows lines earliest,” explains board-certified dermatologist Loretta Ciraldo, M.D., FAAD. That thin skin is also why the area is more sensitive to sun damage, pollution, and oxidative stress—all of which can contribute to sagging skin and wrinkles....

We asked florists and gardeners around the world for their favorite flowers, top techniques, and insider tips for planning and maintaining a cutting garden in your home garden, whether it’s a large backyard or postage-size patio. Another nice thing about growing your own flowers is that it gives you practice arranging displays of different sizes. Make small accent clusters on days when the picking is light and larger arrangements after heavier harvests....

Why, you ask? Since traditional white rolls are made from wood fibers that are broken down and dyed with bleach, they require a lot of water and energy to make—just to end up in the trash. Paper towels that have been whitened with chemicals are not compostable, and they’re deemed unrecyclable once you use them to soak up food items like grease. One way to reduce the impact of your home cleaning is to use dishcloths or reusable paper towels on spills....

I have been using a form of periodic fasting called a fasting mimicking diet (FMD) in my clinic with my patients, which has some pretty great benefits (similar to those from fasting). Here are some general and brain-specific data on the FMD and why you might be interested in trying it, plus how to take part in this eating plan. During the five days of restricted calories, exercise and alcohol are prohibited and coffee is limited to zero or one cup a day....

This question was regarding the practice of the backbends of yoga because they can arouse sexual feelings. I have been teaching backbending yoga for over 10 years now and interestingly enough this was the first student who had the guts to ask. It is a pretty provocative question but coming from a student whom I know was facing some challenges and distractions in his practice. He wanted to know if it was: 1) normal, 2) should he continue, and 3) is he the only one?...

We spoke to an inventor of the Flow Hive as well as a few backyard beekeepers to find out exactly how the product works, its pros and cons, and how to best use it to keep yourself (and your bees!) safe. To get honey out of a conventional beehive, you need to remove one of the hive’s frames at a time, brush off the bees, and carry the frame to a device called a centrifuge, which extracts honey from the honeycombs....