Despite being more common than schizophrenia and bipolar disorder combined, borderline personality disorder remains one of the least understood and most stigmatized mental illnesses. It’s so...
Ever let the weather get you down? You wake up early in the morning for work only to find rain pounding on your window. Or a huge snowstorm has just terrorized your street and you’re walking in 15...
HellaWella’s Media Mash is a weekly feature listing the latest and most interesting health-and-wellness stories we’ve read in the past week, pulled from the Web and linked for your convenience
Yoga is shown to be a great healer both physically and emotionally. For military service members returning from deployment, it can be a powerful tool during their readjustment to civilian life to...
Religious or not, you’ve probably wondered about how a belief in God, or a lack of belief in God, affects one’s health. Research suggests links do exist between one’s spirituality and both physical...
For most people, sleep serves as a much-needed respite from their busy waking hours. But for those with night eating syndrome, sleep is accompanied by frequent trips to the kitchen and uncontrollable...
HellaWella’s Media Mash is a weekly feature listing the latest and most interesting health-and-wellness stories we’ve read in the past week, pulled from the Web and linked for your convenience. Dutch...
Mary Jane stole some of the show from Barack Obama and Mitt Romney this past Election Day, with three states voting on whether or not to legalize marijuana for medical use, and three more deciding...
Everyone’s afraid of something — mice, flying in planes, the dark, cockroaches, public speaking, Kim Kardashian, maybe all of the above. What makes it a phobia is the intensity. A phobia is...
Most of us can admit to indulging in some unusual meals every once and a while. But for some people, strange eating goes beyond weird foods to consuming things that aren’t food at all. Consuming dirt...