If you’re looking at the social media feed for #softlife, you might assume the trend is solely focused on curating aesthetic peaceful experiences: With nearly 200 million views on TikTok, the hashtag is populated with videos of people enjoying things like candlelit baths and working by the gently lapping ocean. But truly embracing a soft […]
When Dylan Sadiq was 21, he emptied his savings account on something his mother (perhaps understandably) considered a completely frivolous expense — not an Xbox or closet full of Nikes but rather 600 individually wrapped Rubik’s Cubes. “It was a few thousand dollars,” he recounted with a laugh on a recent call with Nice News.
“Describe yourself in such-and-such number of words” is a common directive and near-impossible task, made all the more difficult the lower that number gets. But Erin Weed has no trouble condensing the human essence into a single phrase — she does it on a daily basis. Weed is the creator of The Dig, a methodology
This spring, Nice News is partnering with Every Mother Counts for our Cause of the Season — a quarterly fundraising initiative spotlighting nonprofits making the world a better place. Click here to donate, and read on to learn more about the organization. Every day around the globe, more than 700 women die from pregnancy, childbirth,
As the medical world catches up to the current cultural moment, women are enjoying greater access to menopause-specific health care than ever before. In turn, fitness programs tailored to menopausal women are becoming more prevalent as well. When women’s hormones change — whether they’re shifting unpredictably during the pre- and perimenopausal years or dropping off
Do you have a mental health tool kit at the ready? Also called coping toolboxes, these are personalized collections of items, activities, and techniques that can help you self-soothe when you’re in a state of stress. “When we’re in our feelings, it can be difficult to think rationally about how to cope,” Stella Kimbrough, a
“My grandmothers cooked, if it was a good day or a bad day, if they were happy or if they were sad, they cooked. They loved on people with food,” Gary LeBlanc told Nice News on a phone call from Portsmouth, Virginia in mid-April. The career restaurateur and hotelier, whose family hails from New Iberia,
There’s a reason we crack jokes with our friends, buy tickets to comedy shows, and seek romantic partners with a solid sense of humor: It feels good to giggle. But while bursting into laughter provides temporary happiness, how else does it impact our lives? And do those feel-good moments translate to any tangible boons for
Growing up in rural Kansas can be a vastly different experience than growing up in New York City, and not just in terms of geography. In a large nation like the U.S., the population differs widely in income levels, values, ideas, ethnicities, religions, languages, you name it. What’s perhaps more interesting than what we don’t
When’s the last time you walked barefoot in the dirt or lay in the cool grass staring at the sky? In childhood, that was just part of everyday life. In adulthood, it has a name — earthing — and there’s a solid case for giving it a go more often. Also referred to as grounding,
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