Unexplained Infertility: What That Word Actually Means
You go in for the results. Ovulation, confirmed. Tubes, open. Hormones in range. His semen analysis, normal. And then somebody says the…
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Huichol Music: The Violin That Keeps You From Getting Lost
Somewhere in the first hour of that night, a man sat down near the fire, tucked a violin under his chin that…
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Secondary Infertility: The Loss Nobody Gives You Room to Grieve
In a room full of people talking about conception, you can usually pick out the one living with secondary infertility. She's the…
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Cuba Doesn’t Heal in Silence. The Batá Drums Heal Out Loud
The first thing Cuba takes from you is your idea of what healing is supposed to sound like. You arrive carrying the…
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The Singing Bowl You Feel Instead of Hearing
The eco-village sat on a shelf of terraced land below Annapurna, an hour or so out of Pokhara, where the road gives…
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You Don’t Have to Sit Still. Walking Meditation Works When Sitting Won’t
You sat down to meditate, once. Maybe more than once. You set a timer, crossed your legs, closed your eyes, and waited…
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The Timed Intercourse Trap: When Making Love Turns Into a Test You Have to Pass
Timed Inercourse: There's a particular quiet that settles over a bedroom when both people already know what the night is for. The…
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Short Meditation Works? Do you have 20 Minutes?
Short Meditation: You decide, finally, that this is the year you'll meditate. And the moment you decide, a picture arrives with it…
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Male Infertility Is Half the Story. So Why Does She Carry All of It?
Walk into almost any fertility clinic and watch where the attention goes. The charts, the scans, the daily injections, the endless questions…
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The Song That Carries You Through the Night
You reach the house after dark. It sits back from a dirt road in the Putumayo, in the low green country where…
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