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How To Break Up With Someone The Right Way, Even If You HATE Confrontation

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January 28, 2019 at 03:00AM These tips could ease the pain for both partners. Continue Reading… When someone thinks about the heart-wrenching struggles of breaking up, they often imagine themselves on the receiving end of the news. But at least once or twice in your life, there will probably come a time when things feel lackluster, strained, or downright hostile in your relationship, and you need to take on the opposite role. As Cheryl Strayed once wisely wrote in The Rumpus’ Dear Sugar column, “You don’t need a reason to leave. Wanting to leave is enough.” Of course, wanting to leave and actually leaving are very different things. Whatever your reason, whether it’s due to hurtful betrayal or just a slow but undeniable erosion of love, figuring out how to break up with someone can be really hard—especially if you’ve never done it before. To make the process a little bit easier, we spoke to relationship and well-being coach Shula Melamed, M.A., MPH, for some expert advice on how to end a relationship in a way that’s actually healthy: 1. Don’t ghost—even if it was just one date. “I’ve heard some people say that if they’ve only gone out on one date with a person, there is no need to notify them. In my opinion, a simple text should suffice—something kind, direct, and in the spirit of closing the door,” Melamed says. A text is also appropriate if you’re calling things off with a person with whom you’ve been on

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2019 Wellbeing EDITORSPICK

What Every Woman Needs To Know About Perimenopause

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January 28, 2019 at 01:00AM What you need to know about perimenopause, including signs and symptoms—and why it’s been neglected. Continue Reading… Here, we’re all about women’s hormone health. We strongly believe that our hormones benefit from a healthy lifestyle and that every green smoothie, yoga class, and minute of meditation matters. But there’s a time in every woman’s hormonal life—called perimenopause—that’s long been overlooked. This era is marked by big hormonal shifts that can greatly affect quality of life, causing a lot of anxiety and discomfort. So this week, we’re shining the light on this next frontier of hormone health, so that we’re all more informed, and empowered. If you ask a room of 20- or 30-something year old women about their periods, chances are good these days that they can tell you where they are in their cycle, what that means for their hormones, and they might even be adjusting their diets or activity based on that. But if you ask that same question about perimenopause, you’re likely to be met with a sea of somewhat confused faces. Many women have an idea what it is and when it occurs, but they don’t have the exact details down. It’s such a big time in a woman’s life, yet many of us are relatively uninformed and unprepared and it does raise the question: Why don’t we know more about perimenopause? Why We’re All Confused About Perimenopause For starters, many of us are confused about when this time in a

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2019 Wellbeing EDITORSPICK

Why Doctors In Canada Are Prescribing Museum Visits For Stress & Chronic Pain

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January 27, 2019 at 11:00PM Meet the art Rx. Continue Reading… When you complain to your doctor, chances are they’ll come back to you with medicine or diet and exercise advice. Unless you’re in Montreal, Canada, that is, where a small cohort of docs are now prescribing visits to the local museum. In November, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) teamed up with a group of family doctors to launch a pilot “museum prescription” program that tests how access to visual art can help patients cope with mental and physical illnesses. “We know from the research we’re doing that art—looking at art, making art, and participating in museum culture—has positive effects on people’s lives,” Stephen Legari, the museum’s coordinator of art therapy, tells mindbodygreen of the first-of-its-kind partnership. The MMFA, which welcomes about a million visitors a year, has been studying the healing power of art for two decades now. Today, if you stop by the museum’s Art Hive, you’ll find 12 studio spaces where people of all ages and backgrounds can gather to craft side-by-side. In the galleries, you might catch Legari, a trained art therapist himself, guiding a group of women living with breast cancer, young adults with high-functioning autism, or victims of crime, through the exhibits, armed with questions and prompts meant to help them feel supported, entertained, and less alone. “We want to welcome them, connect them with the artwork in the galleries, and build creative projects together,” he says. “We want visitors to find

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2019 Wellbeing

Couples Who Do THIS Have Better Sex

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January 27, 2019 at 08:30PM Let’s talk about body image. Continue Reading… It’s no secret that there’s enjoyment in feeling desired. In fact, a new study just revealed that how much you think your partner loves your body can have a significant effect on your sexual satisfaction—even more than your own appreciation for your body. The study, published in the Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, studied 244 women between ages 18 and 30, all of whom were in a committed relationship for three months or longer and sexually active within the last month. (Most of the women were white and straight.) The scientists assessed the participants’ own body appreciation by asking them to rate how much they related to statements like “I respect my body” and “I feel good about my body.” The women were also asked to complete the survey from their partner’s perspective, to assess their perceived view of their partner’s appreciation of their body (i.e., “My partner feels good about my own body”). The researchers also asked questions about the women’s sexual functioning in the past four weeks, which includes how often they felt sexual desire, their level of arousal, lubrication, number of orgasms, sexual satisfaction, and pain during sex. Finally, women also reported their overall relationship satisfaction, including how pleasant, positive, satisfied, and valued they felt. The findings showed the more you think your partner appreciates your body, the better your sex life tends to be—that is, more desire, arousal, lubrication, and orgasms—and the more

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2019 Wellbeing

This Personality Trait Is More Prone To Disease, Study Says

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January 27, 2019 at 08:00PM If you’ve ever been told to keep a positive mantra in your back pocket, now may be the time to revisit it. Thinking positively may have way more impact on our health than we thought. Thanks to a new study, researchers have linked positive personality traits with reduced risk of developing diabetes. On the flipside of this result, they found that negative traits like pessimism or hostility could actually increase your risk of developing the chronic disease which now plagues over 100 million Americans. The study followed about 140,000 women for a whopping 14 years of their life, keeping track of three central personality traits: negativity, optimism, and hostility. It found that women who were ranked higher for their optimistic, glass-half-full outlook had a 12 percent reduced risk of ending up with type 2 diabetes. On the contrary, for more pessimistic women, their risk was 9 percent higher. For hostility, that figure was 17 percent higher. This study is just another example of how much our outlook can actually influence our physical health. Aside from chronic disease like diabetes, optimistic thinking has been associated with increased longevity, better heart health, and lower stress levels. Since these findings were uncovered, researchers are looking toward the future of diabetes treatment that could be based on your specific personality. More work needs to be done in this sphere, but for now, working toward becoming an optimist just got a lot more appealing. A negative outlook could have serious

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