Month: March 2019

March 03, 2019 at 06:30PM by CWC Remember how your whole day could be completely thrown off track if your hair decided to part against gravity or if you were running late to work without coffee?  Okay sure, both of those things may have happened yesterday—but still, you’ve got bigger concerns to ponder. Like your gut health, for example. Beyond grabbing the odd bottle of kombucha, developing lasting habits in favor of your gut isn’t easy to do without a starting point. That’s why we tapped Mia Rigden, nutrition coach and founder of RASA, to share her full rundown of how she keeps it buddy-buddy with her digestive system. “Gut health is really important to me, and I can feel immediately when it’s off,” says Rigden. (Looking at you, mid-day bloat and subsequent unbuttoning of pants.)  As part of her gut-health routine, Rigden recommends and relies on Flora’s Adult Probiotic, which creates a strong foundation for optimal digestion and regular bowel movements* (because yes, this is something you think about as an adult). Beyond that, as you might expect from a holistic health coach, she takes a total 360 approach. Keep scrolling for a look inside Rigden’s day-to-day supplement routine as well as her go-to snacks that keep her gut in tip-top shape. In case you haven’t had a moment to stalk Rigden’s Insta, she cooks and eats like a boss—a gut-conscious boss, at that. “I love anything fermented,” she says. “Kimchi, sauerkraut, kombucha, miso, coconut yogurt—there are so many probiotic-rich foods.” Another fermented

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March 03, 2019 at 12:37PM by CWC One of the most common tropes Hollywood uses to show a relationship that has gone the distance—as in, multiple decades—is constant bickering. Think of all the elderly couples in movies, the neighbors down the hall who have been married for 50 years and shuffle down the sidewalk murmuring insults at each other (or: shouting, a la the Costanzas on Seinfeld). Then, inevitably, the leads of the movie offer up a “y’all so crazy” laugh in a way that tells you that they know this couple really loves each other deep down. But psychotherapist Esther Perel—whose insights on desire (hint: being a conscientious partner isn’t always a turn-on) and cult fave couples therapy podcast Where Should We Begin? has made her a star—believes that bickering is no laughing matter. Psychotherapist Esther Perel believes that bickering is no laughing matter. In fact, she calls it “low-intensity chronic warfare.” In fact, she calls it “low-intensity chronic warfare,” according to a recent Instagram video post. “Ongoing bickering and criticism can lead to the demise of a relationship. Here‘s one idea for shifting this dynamic,” she says. What’s so damaging about it? “Generally when you’re in critical mode your assumptions are negative. You do not assume that the other person had good intentions. You always are on the assumption that it was meant to be hurtful, meant to be dissing you, etc.,” she says. View this post on Instagram Bickering is low intensity chronic warfare. It’s this notion that every time one person

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