Many people struggle with skin picking, or at the very least likes to mess with their skin on some level: Consider dermatillomaniac as a spectrum of intensity. Dermatillomania and trichotillomania are what’s known as body-focused repetitive behaviors, or “BFRBs” for short. As the picking started to take off, I wasn’t aware of the terminology for a long time. To be honest, I just thought I had really bad skin. I’d think, “What’s wrong; why can’t I find the right treatment?...

Your home, your living temple, directly reflects your spiritual condition and worldly state. So get out of the habit of just rushing out of your home for something so important or demanding that you had to leave dishes in the sink, clothes on the floor, the floor unswept, and papers everywhere. As a result of leaving your home in disarray, you are sure to meet confusion in the streets. So happily wash those dishes; joyfully hang up your clothes; place books on their proper shelves and important papers in a file and out of sight; peacefully make your bed....

What do I mean by that? I mean that the first couple of weeks feel like a mix of sluggish and confusing, often associated with planetary retrogrades. A little like when you wake up from a nap before you’re ready and you can’t quite get into the present moment—it feels cloudy with a chance of misunderstanding. My recommendation in the first couple weeks of January is to allow yourself to slow down....

John Hackston, head of thought leadership at the Myers-Briggs Company, echoes this point, explaining that ENFJs are often so concerned with others’ values, they may try to “correct” other people. “They can sometimes be a little too forceful—and can take criticism very personally, even when a comment wasn’t intended to be critical,” he says. “That said, people with ENFJ preferences may seek relationships where they can grow together with their partner, where they can have deep meaningful discussions about love and life, and where they can organize all that in a way that makes their lives together positive and fulfilling,” he says....

Lo and behold, these superfood seeds can do so much for our strands. Here’s why hairstylists love a good flaxseed gel, plus how to make one yourself for shiny, hydrated curls no matter your type. That’s because flaxseeds are rich in vitamin E and omega-3 fatty acids, which can nourish dry, damaged hair. Fatty acids have been touted for their ability to provide moisture (for your hair and your skin, it turns out)....

When sexual partners make this intentional decision, it means they forgo condoms, dental dams, internal condoms, and other kinds of preventive barriers during oral, anal, and vaginal sex and any kind of sexual touching. It can also mean the partners choose to share sex toys together without a barrier. Because you exchange bodily fluids such as secretions, semen, ejaculate, and blood or saliva, fluid bonding increases the chances of pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs)....

These are just a few questions that the principles of “food combining” aim to answer. Here, we dig into whether or not this Ayurveda-inspired way of eating has real perks, plus how to do it. The basic concept of food combining was then revived in the 1920s through the Hay Diet. The Hay diet was formulated by the New York-based physician William Howard Hay and classifies foods as acid, alkaline, or neutral....