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All products featured on Self are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. Or maybe you hope to be one day! JEWEL SAMAD/Getty Images That said, my experiencerunningthis marathon in 2015 was the moment I fell back in love with New York. Its an experience Ill never forget. Familiarize yourself with the course, but dont dissect it to the nth degree....
All products featured on Self are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. Needless to say, I was definitely a weird kid, but I was also clearly onto something. Westend61/Getty Images Sauerkraut is full ofprobiotics, which some research has shown can help improve gut health. And if that weren’t enough, it’s also freakin' delicious. Here’s everything she told me, plus what I learned from making it myself....
My mission is to help make fitness and workout and movement spaces more affirming and accessible to all bodies. I want others to explore their physical potential, thereby definingand taking control oftheir own bodies. I have embedded in my fitness practice a grassroots community-based healing justice framework. Hinterhaus Productions/Getty Images are cisgender, able-bodied people who are also thin, white, straight folks. We DONT need folks projecting a limited, normative view of what bodies should look and move like....
All products featured on Self are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. I got my period for the first time during sleepaway camp. Photo Courtesy of the brand It was all they had in the med kit. Appropriately,menstrual productshave also gone through several transformations since then. Suddenly, few people I knowjustbuy tampons. As a result, Ive stained almost all of my underwear, which is fine....
It was everything I ever thought ahoneymoonwould be. Yes, everything was honeymoon-perfect, except for one crucial detail: I wasnt actually on my honeymoon. In fact, I wasnt even married yetjust engagedand my fiance was at home in New York. Annie Daly Not even in high school. Well, I am here to tell you that for me it was annoyingly true. It happened to me. Annie Daly But most of it was emotional....
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The phrase festival season means different things to different people. For a lucky few, its a chance to see Beyoncemake music history. Some take it as the best time to break out their best flower crowns. One of the rooftop cycling classes offered at Wake Up Call Hollywood Ive personally always thought Coachella sounded more dehydrating than fun. But afitness festival, on the other hand, is a concept I can get behind....
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Abarca says even yourrotator cuffs, lats, traps, andpectoral musclescan be involved in core work. Not only can that help with injury prevention (including back pain! ), but it can also improve your range of motion, boost strength, and maintain mobility. Katie Thompson Below, check out 34 great core moves that top trainers swear by. Forearm Plank you’re able to do aforearm plankanywhere! Its also easily modifiable in both directionsto make easier or harderso its perfect for group training sessions....
You may have joked to friends that you dont needtherapyyou have them. If your hard stuff is aboutsex, a sex therapist may be your best option. In that kind of situation, medical treatment may help ease difficulty having sex. FilippoBacci/Getty Images Seeing a sex therapist to discuss any psychological components at play can be helpful, Richmond explains. It can also happen due to issues such as post-traumatic stress disorder from a sexual assault....
Preventive (prophylactic) bilateral oophorectomy carries benefits and risks that must be carefully balanced when considering this procedure. In an oophorectomy, a surgeon removes both your ovariesthe almond-shaped organs on each side of your uterus. Your ovaries contain eggs and secrete the hormones that control your reproductive cycle. This surgery can halt or slow breast cancers that need these hormones to grow. Discuss your risk factors for breast cancer and ovarian cancer with your doctor....
All products featured on Self are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. Everywhere I looked, bright, jewel-toned orbs surrounded me. Courtesy of the author They were cranberries, millions of them swaying gently alongside me. The red and pink berries covered the entire surface of the water. Yes, I used the word tranquil because it was the only way to describe what I felt....
