Amy Norton

3 weeks ago | self.com | Brijen Shah |Amy Norton

All products are independently selected by our editors. If you buy something, we may earn an affiliate commission. Demi Ricario considers herself both a foodie and a globe-trotter. The “travel bug,” she tells SELF, hit her when she was 15 and took a solo trip to the United States from her native Philippines. It was an experience of a lifetime—she was hooked.

1 month ago | self.com | Jessica Ailani |Amy Norton

Time. In the experience of dementia specialist Suzanne Schindler, MD, that’s what patients in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease so often want. More time to spend with family and friends, doing the things they’ve always enjoyed. More time, even, to do all the things a lot of us don’t enjoy—like running errands and getting dinner on the table. Until recently, there was no way to buy them more time.

2 months ago | self.com | Amy Norton

Imagine if one morning, you casually reached back to hook your bra only to be greeted with a jolt of pain in your shoulder. And then instead of going away, the pain gradually got worse over time, to the point that you had to invent creative and weird ways to deal with your bra—and putting on a shirt, and washing your hair, and any number of mundane daily tasks. Imagine if, eventually, you were so afraid to move your shoulder, it just got kind of…stuck.

Nov 11, 2024 | self.com | Amy Norton

Brittany Underwood was 37 when she was hit with COVID early in 2021. Her case was mild, and, like the mom she is, she took care of everyone else because of course the rest of her family had it too. It wasn’t until a couple weeks later that she started to feel lousy—wiped out, constantly thirsty, and dealing with weird issues like blurry vision in one eye. When Underwood brought those symptoms to her doctor, he decided to run some blood tests.

Sep 27, 2024 | self.com | Amy Norton

When Juliette Landgrave felt a painful, “rock-hard” lump in one of her breasts, she immediately called both her primary care doctor and gynecologist. A mammogram and further testing revealed she had “triple-negative” breast cancer—a more aggressive type. She was 38 at the time and had no family history of the disease. “It was just very difficult to understand, to digest it,” Landgrave tells SELF.