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Halloween is quickly approaching, and if you’re anything like me, you’ve been spending the month prepping a couples’ costume for you and
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A new moon solar eclipse is happening in Libra on October 14, causing a little bit of chaos and a lot of growth. We won’t sugar coat it: eclipse seas
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I Went To Brain Camp To Cure My Foggy Mind
Humblebrag incoming: I’ve always considered myself to have a sharp mind. I can think on my toes, have no trouble getting tasks done, and can often put tw
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Body
I Got Sweat Botox In An Attempt To Smell Better
My keen vigilance against smelling like body odor follows me around like a cartoon fart cloud. I am assured by people around me that the smell is all in my
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Are you in your “Eat Pray Love era”? As I enter what sociologists rather meanly call “early mid-life” at the age of 35, I am firmly in mine
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I Tried The Most Famous Vibrator On Amazon (According To 59,000 O...
We call them hidden gems, but it’s no secret that Amazon boasts a treasure trove of the internet’s most viral products at insanely affordable p
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Wellness
One Bed, Two Blankets: Does The Scandi Sleeping Method Work?
I can’t remember when exactly I encountered the two blankets, one bed sleeping arrangement, but I do know I wasn’t a fan at first. It would have been d
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Feel Good Diaries
I Live In NYC, Make $95k & Use The 80/20 Rule For Wellness
Welcome to Refinery29’s Feel Good Diaries, where we chronicle the physical and mental wellness routines of women today, their costs, and whether or
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Your Horoscope This Week: October 1 to October 7
Welcome to the first week of October, cosmic beings. We’re about to enter eclipse season, and the energy emanating from the recent full moon in Aries is
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Work & Money
Can A Company Fire You For Being Depressed?
The thing about depression is that you can’t exactly tell it that now’s not a good time. Unlike the silenced group chat messages and Hinge notification
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Amazon
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Asian drugstore products just hit different — and this is a hill I’m 100% willing to die on. Growing up in Macau, China, I’d often visit loca
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7 Antiviral Foods To Boost Your Immune System
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Travel
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The first time Azia Mery, 25, tried to have penetrative sex seven years ago, she went from feeling nervous to absolutely terrified. Her boyfriend at the ti
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Living
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Recently, a video appeared on my TikTok For You Page that got an immediate send into the group chat: A woman, speaking to camera, tells the viewer to ask t
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Pat yourselves on the back — we’re halfway through the zodiac year! It’s finally Libra season and from September 23 to October 23, we’l
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Wellness
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Since its posting back in 2021, the TikTok video that helped spur this viral self-diagnosis conversation has racked up nine million views and counting. You
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Taking Care
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Ellie Hopkins, 35, had always known she was bendy but never thought much of it. “I just thought it was normal. I assumed everyone could do the splits, or
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Buy Yourself A Birthday Gift Host A Dinner Party Concoct A Fanciful Cocktail(Or Mocktail) Get A Massage Gift Yourself Something Sparkly Take A Long Bath Be
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Taking Care
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Nurse Amy Lochtie was in a meeting about infection control the first time she went into anaphylaxis — a severe reaction, usually related to an allergy, w
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Relationships
Casual Relationships Need Boundaries Too
Since the dawn of time — or maybe the “Summer Nights” duet from Grease — situationships and flings have been a fun way to maintain no-strings conne
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Sex Re-Education
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My first group sex experience in 2016 was arguably the best timed event in the world: Not only was it my first threesome but it was also my debut into quee
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Too Many Thoughts Living Rent-Free In Your Head? Try Mind Gardening
People have been describing thoughts, images, and ideas as “living in their head rent-free” for years now. Urban Dictionary (the font of all kn
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Sadhbh O'Sullivan
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