Nothing in life comes easy, and we can say the same about aging gracefully. No matter how many anti-aging creams and supplements you buy, true results won’t come unless you get moving.  Exercise is the fountain of youth for your aging muscles. That’s why it’s no secret that strength training is one of the best workouts for your body.  Anyone is capable of strength and resistance training, and experts like Keith Sobkowiak DPT, a physical therapist and regional director at shek

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, SheKnows may receive an affiliate commission. Journalist and author Virginia Sole Smith didn’t realize she’d internalized so many diet culture-informed messages about how a parent should feed their kids until her older daughter was born. She wrote her whole first book — The Eating Instinct — on the experience of being in and out of hospitals, dealing with her child being dependent on a feeding tube for shek

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, SheKnows may receive an affiliate commission. “Release the dragon, Paton!” Moni Yakim, the legendary head of movement and cofounder of the Drama Division at the Juilliard School, had me in his cross hairs. “Release the dragon!” Moni’s class transforms artists using physical exploration and impulse exercises that either provoke emotional energy in the body, or interpret experiences through physicality. It’s relentless, physically brutal, exhausting and shek

Demi Lovato is reflecting on how Hollywood’s rigid beauty ideals fueled her eating disorder as a young actress. In a recent interview with TODAY’s Savannah Sellers, the actress, singer, and mental health advocate opened up about her recovery journey. When Lovato first sought treatment for her eating disorder, she was 18 years old and already a prominent Disney Channel star. “I [got help for] my eating disorder, and I went for self-harm and emotional issues. And when I came out shek

Olympian and advocate Aly Raisman has experienced migraines for a long time — but didn’t always have the words to tell others what she was going through. And it was only in the last few years that she finally got the proper diagnosis for her experience. “I have had migraine for a very long time — and I honestly didn’t get diagnosed with migraine until a couple of years ago,” Raisman told SheKnows. “So I went most of my life without being shek

A new report from Gallup is shedding light on the alarmingly high prevalence of depression in America. As CNN reported, Gallup digitally surveyed 5,167 U.S. adults about their mental health between February 21–28, 2023. Based on their responses, the polling group estimates that more than 1 in 6 Americans adults — in other words, about 18 percent — is depressed or receiving treatment for depression. That record-high number marks a jump of 7 percentage points since 2015, when Gallup published shek