Amanda Hess

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Amanda Hess

3 hours agoSwearing is linked with increased pain tolerance and strengthResearchers are working to understand why swearing may help in a number of circumstances, with a major focus on pain, and how it can more effectively be used in a clinical setting.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Amanda Hess

Una mañana de enero, en el East Village de Nueva York, llegué al estudio de un "facilitador de sonido", lista para sanar. El facilitador se presentó como Gary. Lo seguí más allá de un refrigerador cubierto con un tapiz indio hasta una sala vacía, donde encontré a Parker Posey sentada con las piernas cruzadas sobre una esterilla frente a una hilera de gongs. Se veía cómoda y relajada, como si conociera a esos gongs desde hace muchos años.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Amanda Hess

One January morning, I arrived at the East Village studio of a "sound facilitator," prepared to heal. The facilitator introduced himself as Gary. He led me past a refrigerator cloaked in an Indian tapestry and into an emptied living room, where I found Parker Posey perched cross-legged on a mat, facing a row of gongs. She appeared cozy and at ease, as if she had known the gongs for many years.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Kate LoPresti |Frannie Carr Toth |Sonia Herrero |Elisheba Ittoop |Dan Powell |Melissa Kirsch | +2 more

Women in midlife are having a moment in popular culture - a steamy one. Recently, there has been a swell of books, celebrity-endorsed wellness products, and movies that center on the sexual lives of perimenopausal and menopausal women. One of those films is "Babygirl," written and directed by Halina Reijn and starring Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson. The age-gap romance has ignited a feverish conversation about the intricacies of women's sexual power and desire.

2 months ago | nzherald.co.nz | Amanda Hess

In Babygirl, Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson are flipping the script on outdated older woman stereotypes. She has been called a ‘cougar’, ‘Mrs Robinson’ and ‘your mum’. Now she’s the protagonist, and one of film and television’s most compelling characters. The older woman has been very busy lately. By “older woman”, I am referring to the cinematic figure who is defined by her sexual and romantic relationships with younger men.