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MediumPandemics Why Am I Still So Miserable? Medium - Melinda Wenner Moyer At first, Lindsay Pearson felt hopeful. She was getting the Covid-19 vaccine, and case rates around the country were going down. The pandemic was, by …
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MediumKids My Therapist Says To Try an Elimination Diet for the Soul Medium - Michele Bigley When school let out for winter break of 2020, I finally started to lose my shit. It wasn’t the holidays, a possible election coup, my kids off Zoom …
MediumAdvanced Micro Devices The $2 Drug That Millions of Patients Aren’t Being Told About Medium - Kat Kennedy “I couldn’t open or close my eyes without pain. It was like salt or shards of glass… all I could do was go to bed,” said 71-year-old Beth, who was …
MediumThe Brain How the Physical Body Holds Mental Tension Medium - Tami Bulmash If you’ve ever endured a nerve-racking situation followed by a throbbing noggin, it wouldn’t seem far-fetched to connect one with the other. Nearly …
MediumWellness My Therapist Says There Are ‘Little T’ Traumas and ‘Big T’ Traumas Medium - Sophia June When I first started going to therapy at 19, I had a pretty good idea of the traumas I wanted to excavate: divorce, parental addiction, eviction — …
MediumDiets They Swore by the Diet I Created — but I Completely Made It Up Medium - Alanlevinovitz While on vacation, Marcial Conte, the Brazilian publisher of my first book, met a woman who asked about his work. Upon learning he was responsible …
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MediumAnxiety Anxiety Is in Your Body, Not Your Mind Medium - Emma Pattee Let’s back up 50,000 years or so. Imagine you’re a Neanderthal taking a leisurely stroll through the fields. Suddenly, in the nearby bushes, you hear …
Mediumfitness articles A Simple Workout That Makes a Huge Difference Medium - Anna Maltby I had a big and difficult decision to make last week, and as the little bubble of anxiety in my gut grew bigger and bubblier as the deadline …
MediumLibido The Long, Unsatisfying Quest to Fix Female Libido Medium - Laura Entis Female sexual desire has always been suspended on a tricky societal tightrope. In the past, it was something to be repressed and undiscussed. Violate …
MediumPandemics How You’ll Know When the Pandemic Is Contained Medium - Wudan Yan After a dark, lonely winter — when cases of Covid-19 ravaged the globe, surpassing 2 million deaths in mid-January, and with new variants cropping up …
MediumLearning How to Create a Sense of Purpose, According to Science Medium - Cortland Dahl When was the last time you felt truly fulfilled? When your life felt meaningful and rewarding, or aligned with some deeper purpose or motivation? …
MediumLoneliness Why Phone Calls Combat Loneliness Better Than Zoom Calls Medium - Tom Jacobs When it comes to technology, many of us reflexively assume newer is better. So when Covid-19 forced us into isolation a year ago, we turned to our …
MediumSleep The Science of Spring Fever Medium - Markham Heid Spring is a season of rebirth and renewal. Flowers sprout, leaves bud, and the natural world wakes up from its long winter hibernation. Likewise, a …
MediumMississippi Inside One of America’s Vaccine Deserts Medium - Jillian Kramer Along a winding roadway festooned with lanky longleaf pines, a sign welcomes you to Meadville, Mississippi, population 519. “Oh, we’re bigger than …
MediumPandemics What’s Ahead for Spring: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Medium - Craig Spencer MD MPH I’m writing weekly for Medium about my experiences as an emergency medicine doctor during the Covid-19 pandemic. You can read my previous posts on …
MediumHealth 7 Hard and Crucial Lessons of Covid-19 Medium - Robert Roy Britt Plaguing the world for more than a year, the coronavirus has forced reckonings in everything from scientific understanding to heart-wrenching …
MediumAlcohol For Some, There Is No Such Thing as Safe Drinking Medium - Gillian May I am an alcoholic in recovery. Before I quit drinking five years ago, I meandered through a slippery contemplation phase for several years. I knew I …
MediumMental Health How to build a more resilient brain Medium - Dana G Smith This is an email from , a newsletter by Elemental. Welcome back to Inside Your Head 🧠, a weekly newsletter exploring why your brain makes you think, …
MediumMental Health Coaches Could Help Solve the Mental Health Crisis Medium - Myra Altman America is in the midst of a mental health crisis that will have lasting effects. In January, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) …
MediumWellness Why Do Healthy Foods Give Me Gas? Medium - Markham Heid In my household, for reasons that are obscure even to me, “fart” is a bad word. At some point, my wife and I must have decided that we didn’t want to …
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MediumWeird It’s About to Get Weird. Like, Really Weird. Medium - Craig Spencer MD MPH The summer is starting to look spectacular. The White House recently announced the U.S. will have enough vaccines by the end of May to inoculate …
MediumMental Health The Sexist History of Blaming Mothers for Mental Illness Medium - Robert Kolker When it comes to psychiatry and brain science, moms haven’t had it easy. Autism once was blamed on “refrigerator mothers.” Obsessive-compulsive …
Mediumfitness articles How Daily Exercise Became the Last Great Indulgence Medium - Nora Zelevansky I have always been a sporadic exerciser. And, yes, that’s euphemistic. My periods of regular exercise historically come in fits and starts, then …
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