Wellbeing

“I have a saga of chiropractors,” says 26-year-old Isabella Wager, who played competitive sports in high school and college, and has seen three chiropractors for lower back pain, starting at age 14. The first one performed what are called…

On July 25, a woman in her 30s died of coronavirus on a flight as it was about to depart from Arizona to Texas. Dallas County health officials were notified of the cause of death only a few days ago, nearly three months after the incident, BuzzFeed…

A case of voter suppression in the South may forecast a tumultuous Election Day. Officials fired a poll worker who prevented people wearing "Black Lives Matter" shirts from voting at the Dave Wells Community Center in Memphis, Tennessee, on Friday,…

In these divisive political days, many of us are feeling pretty perplexed about how people with opposing ideologies can justify their stances. The supreme court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett, for example, leaves a really foul taste in my mouth.…

A close friend of mine is thinking about moving to Mexico. They have a thriving online business and are considering working from there for the next few months. Even though it might be a watered-down adventure because of the pandemic, it seems like a…

As drug companies continue to race towards a coronavirus vaccine at warp speed, Americans are getting more and more hesitant about actually getting it when it’s available. After so much pandemic flip-flopping by officials, it’s becoming increasingly…

Coronavirus brought with it a new strain of cabin fever that targeted young urbanites stuck in cramped apartments. The pandemic was hard on everyone, of course, but living in tiny spaces with no access to green space is a special kind of hell. Some…

My stomach tensed as I glanced at the digital clock above the stove. Dinner was in 15 minutes, and I had yet to bake the apple pie I was supposed to serve my partner’s family for dessert. It was a Friday night in August, and we'd been quarantining…

Thanksgiving is close, and even if you’re usually a pumpkin spice hater like me, this rollercoaster of a year may be making you feel nostalgic for anything that seems cozy or familiar. Well, before you get too excited about celebrating like the good…

The phrase “coming out” might seem simple but for many people, it can have dire consequences. In April of 2020, former Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum announced that he is bisexual — this came a few months after his hotel scandal and…

Gender is a box we’re placed into before we can even roll over or hold our bulbous baby heads up. It’s also an illusion, even if so many people still reject the idea of intentionally stepping out of that box. Trans people’s simple request to be…

I've been mostly vegan for years. The thing that stops me from totally committing? Eggs. They’re easy and delicious. Who doesn’t love a runny yolked breakfast? Plus, I'm not much of a baker, so when I try to figure out how to sub in flaxseed goo for…

In the past few days, you might’ve doom scrolled through headlines about a new Australian study that looked at the survival rates of coronavirus on various surfaces in a lab. Much of the media coverage highlighted how the virus could survive on our…

Thanksgiving and other fall shenanigans usually yield family and friends gathering in concert around a selection of high-carb dishes and mediocre red wine. And usually, all that good-good is happening under one roof, but unfortunately, COVID-19 has…

When will the pandemic end? All these months in, with over 37 million COVID-19 cases and more than 1 million deaths globally, you may be wondering, with increasing exasperation, how long this will continue. Since the beginning of the pandemic,…

If a good night’s sleep seems to constantly elude you, you’re probably willing to try almost anything to find it. And a huge global sleep aids market — projected to hit nearly $80 billion by 2023, according to an Allied Market Research report —…

When it comes to weight loss, diet and exercise are usually thought of as the two key factors that will achieve results. However, sleep is an often-neglected lifestyle factor that also plays an important role. The recommended sleep duration for…

Several people I know have already had coronavirus. Even though some of them got pretty sick, after they recovered, they have felt like they won the golden ticket. They got hit with a worst case scenario, survived, and now they can move through the…

Recently, I found myself on YouTube watching Megan Thee Stallion videos, (I came for “WAP,” and stayed for whatever the algorithm gave me) and after butchering the dance to “Savage,” I encountered Meg’s second single off of her EP Suga, “Captain…