March 07, 2019 at 06:00AM by CWC “I want to be on top!” Whether or not you’ve uttered that string of words about your career or in the bedroom with your S.O., you know that a lot (and I mean a whole history’s worth) of gendered baggage comes along with them. Sexy times are a-changing though. Now that research is recognizing the widening gap between sex and gender and people are waking up to pleasure quality (rather than things like duration or quantity) being the gold standard for all sexual activities, the question of which partner holds the power during hot-and-heavy time is becoming a bigger part of the dialogue—and not a gendered given. And Bethany C. Meyers, LGBTQ+ activist and founder of the be.come project, shared their thoughts about it at the February Well+Good TALKS in New York City, which focused on sex. “I personally think that power dynamics are not necessarily specific to whether you’re male, female, or nonbinary,” Meyers, a panelist, said when an audience member, who identifies as nonbinary, asked how to handle shifting power dynamics in sex as a nonbinary person. Meyers elaborated that, in their opinion, the dynamic has way more to do with each individual’s personality. “I’m really more of a dominant in my life in general, so when I’m with someone new in the bedroom that really comes through. I feel like that’s my personality, and how I appear really doesn’t play into it as much.” Tyomi Morgan, a sexpert with The National Coalition of Sexual Health
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Let’s settle once and for all whether kale or spinach is better for your bod
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How to deal with ambiguous loss—the grief you feel when closure isn’t an option
March 07, 2019 at 04:00AM by CWC The death of a loved one is never easy to process, and the grieving process is different for everyone—but what if you’re left to grieve someone who is very much still alive, or gone but not indefinitely? While there’s a name for it, there’s unfortunately no resolution. Ambiguous loss remains unclear, says psychologist Pauline Boss, PhD, who coined the term. While studying families of pilots missing in action during Vietnam in the 1970s, Dr. Boss named ambiguous grief to describe a physical absence with a psychological presence, such as with missing persons (like the military example above), divorce, miscarriage, and desertion. The term also describes psychological absence with physical presence, as with cases of dementia, traumatic brain injury, chronic mental illness, or addiction. And when you’re tasked with handling ambiguous loss, the feelings that arise are often complicated because there’s no real recovery. “Ambiguous loss can freeze the grief process.” says Dr. Boss, “People can’t get over it, they can’t move forward, they’re frozen in place.” Unlike with death, there is no proof that allows for any sort of conclusion. There’s no funeral and there’s no script, so to speak, to follow. “Ambiguous loss can freeze the grief process. People can’t get over it, they can’t move forward, they’re frozen in place.” —psychologist Pauline Boss, PhD With death, eventually you reorganize family roles, and somebody takes over what the lost person used to do, says Dr. Boss. “But when somebody is just missing, oftentimes
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What to do when working out isn’t an option, according to the pros
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