Category: Fashion

March 20, 2019 at 02:18PM by CWC Every relationship comes with a unique set of challenges. (What, you thought romance was easy?) Add a mental health condition into the mix, and things can feel a lot more complicated. If you’re dating someone with ADHD (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, which can present in different ways and is the clinical term for what’s often called ADD) you may find that you feel ignored, neglected, and frustrated, Erin Nicole McGinnis, LMFT, says. (In addition to being a psychotherapist, McGinnis has ADD and has been in relationships with people with ADD—which is all to say, she is uniquely qualified to speak on this topic.) “People with [ADHD] can be very attentive one minute, and then not follow through the next. The partner can often feel like they aren’t cared about, filling in the blanks and making assumptions that aren’t true,” McGinnis says. ADHD, which, according to Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD), affect an estimated 10 million adults, can manifest as hyperactivity or inattentiveness, McGinnis says. If the person with ADHD is hyperactive, it often shows as fidgeting, impulsiveness, and talkativeness. If they’re inattentive, it looks like daydreaming and spacing out, McGinnis says. “Both [presentations] have an inability to stay on task. They have a problem starting a task and finishing it. They also have a problem staying focused…[and] lose things frequently, which can make it very frustrating for their partners.” She explains that to have a functional relationship, you need to be able to complete tasks

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March 19, 2019 at 08:57AM by CWC Today in “take all my money,” Nike just dropped the 2019 Nike Free Running Collection. I don’t even run that often and I am consumed with want over these. Two new shoes are included in the collection; the Nike Free RN Flyknit 3.0 ($130), and the Nike Free RN 5.0 ($100). These sleek shoes were designed to mimic the way you would run in your bare feet—even more so than previous iterations of the Frees. Because when it comes to things like avocado, more is definitely more. But in the case of running shoes, it’s better to take a minimalist approach. Lightweight shoes without too much cushioning allow for more mobility as you run. Both shoes feature an offset that is lower to the ground than previous designs (4mm lower for the Flyknit 3.0, and 2mm lower for the Free 5.0). In regular person speak, this means that your foot is closer to the ground. It’s that whole “mimicking running barefoot” thing, you know, without actually having to run barefoot because that germ situation would be out of control. Nike also firmed up the midsole from previous iterations because this version is designed for lower mileage. Photo: Nike Plus, they both just look super cool. And really, that’s what’s important right? The shoes were designed to be more “anatomically shaped,” which sounds kind of sexual, but cool. Basically, that means in addition to design innovations that make the shoe feel like a second skin, the

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March 19, 2019 at 03:00AM by CWC I had a real SpongeBob Squarepants situation this morning when, to the tune of, “Aaahhhh! Noooooo…” I sat down on the couch and completely ripped the seat of my tights. And when I say ripped, I mean they were shredded. (Clearly, the seams had been straining for quite some time.) Also shredded, however, was my resolve to continue contorting my body to fit into too-small clothes. I’m not a waif of a woman anymore—and that’s OK. But how did I get there? Well, rest assured that I lost a lot of good hosiery on the journey to making this self-acceptance discovery. A few weeks back, I had to cut a date night with my S.O. short because the waistband of my tights was constricting my internal organs in a way that made any line of thought beyond “must. take. off. tights” impossible. This was not the first time I’d had to turn in early because my vice-like undergarments were making me sick to my stomach. “I can’t wait until spring,” I said. “Then I can stop wearing these tights that just cut me at the gut.” To that, my boyfriend shot me a weary expression. “Sweetie, is there any chance that you might be wearing the wrong size tights?” he asked, oh so gently. I was, in a word, displeased. It’s now impossible for me to recall my response verbatim, but it might have involved 360-degree head spinning, projectile green pea soup vomit, and the

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March 18, 2019 at 03:00PM by CWC Back in the day, if you didn’t feel like washing your hair, your only option was pouring baby powder on your scalp and hoping for the best. Case in point: I’m pretty sure I attended every single day of seventh grade looking like a greased-up Martha Washington. Then, dry shampoo hit the scene and completely altered second- (and third- and fourth-) day hair as we know it. But now, in 2019, there’s a whole new game-changing crop of between-wash stylers for those of us who would rather attend Ja Rule’s next music festival than wash our hair more than two times a week. Don’t get me wrong, I love good, old-fashioned dry shampoo as much as the next girl (maybe even more), but even I’ll admit that it has its limitations. Aside from the white residue it often leaves on top of your head (which, as we recently discovered, can be easily avoided if you hold the can eight to ten inches away from your scalp), not every situation simply calls for grease sopping. That’s why the best between-wash product for you depends primarily on your texture. “Refreshing straight hair, where you just want to get a little volume in there, dry shampoos and powders are great,” says Dove celebrity stylist Mark Townsend. “It’s the exact opposite for girls with curls.” Because curlier textures tend to not have as much moisture (it me), the perfect between-wash products often depend on the thickness and curl type. Here,

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March 18, 2019 at 01:36PM by CWC Sure, the Game of Thrones x Adidas Ultraboost collaboration is great—but apparently the real match we didn’t know we needed is the one between Stanford and Apple. I mean, the former may have given me metaphorical life, but the latter has the potential to give you literal life. Stanford University School of Medicine just released the findings of its Apple Heart Study. The study, conducted over eight months, included over 400,000 participants to determine whether the Apple Watch’s irregular heart rhythm function could safely detect atrial fibrillation (aka irregular heartbeat). According to the Stanford University School of Medicine, atrial fibrillation is a leading cause of stroke and hospitalization in the United States. Many people don’t even know they have it since they don’t notice the symptoms. To see if the Apple Watch has potential life-saving abilities, researchers recruited over 400,000 people to take part in the study, using Series 1, 2, or 3 Apple Watches in conjunction with an iPhone app. The watch intermittently checked for an irregular heart beat, and participants got an alert if one was detected. Participants were asked to have a telemedicine consultation with a doctor involved in the study, and sent electrocardiogram (ECG) patches. (ECG technology is available with the latest Apple Watch model, which launched after the Apple Heart Study began.) Prepare to turn into an IRL exploding-head emoji, because the study found that people who got the alert had a 71 percent chance of actually having

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