Category: Reading
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Dating, Sex, and Herpes
Read more: Dating, Sex, and HerpesDating, Sex, and Herpes, a Q&A at the NYT with Dr. Peter Leone. Starts this way: Can you have herpes but never even know it? Can the herpes simplex virus spread even if you don’t have symptoms? And how do you navigate the maze of sex and dating when you know you are infected with…
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Your Pets, Your Relationship
Read more: Your Pets, Your RelationshipCan Pets Improve Your Relationship? PsychCentral article, summed up at the Well Blog this way: Do you greet each other with excitement, overlook each other’s flaws and easily forgive bad behavior? If it’s your pet, the answer is probably yes. But your spouse? Probably not.
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Take a Nap
Read more: Take a NapSara Mednick, PhD wants you to take a nap. She wrote a book about it (Take a Nap, Change Your Life). No, you don’t have to stop at 20 minutes: Research shows longer naps help boost memory and enhance creativity. Slow-wave sleep — napping for approximately 30 to 60 minutes — is good for decision-making skills,…
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Overdoing It (Kids’ Sports Edition)
Read more: Overdoing It (Kids’ Sports Edition)Jane Brody surveys the kids’ sports landscape, and pulls a bracing quote from Until It Hurts: America’s Obsession with Youth Sports and How It Harms Our Kids, by Mark Hyman: “Every year more than 3.5 million children under 15 require medical treatment for sports injuries, nearly half of which are the result of simple overuse.”
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RAINing Mindfulness
Read more: RAINing MindfulnessThe Irish Times Tara Brach spells out RAIN (the mindfulness acronym): R is for Recognise. Just recognise that you have the emotion, that you’re very anxious for instance. A is for Allow. Allow the anxiety to be present, accept that it’s there. No need to get into a fight with yourself over it. I is for Investigate.…