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“Tune in to yourself,” says Taryn Toomey, the latest étoile du jour to light up the fitness world, addressing a women’s retreat in upstate New York last summer. “Know there’s a part of you that really wants the suffering and part of you that really wants the awakening. “Know who’s running the show.” Therein lies the essence of the Taryn Toomey phenomenon—suffering and awakening, hurting and healing. Toomey is the birthmother of The Class, a body-depleting, mind-bending workout that defies both definition and category....

Vintage Hairstyle Ideas You’ve Got to Try: Vintage Hairstyle Ideas You’ve Got to Try: 1. Big Hair We are all about that volume when recreating our favorite vintage hairstyles. Achieving this level of big hair requires a careful combination of the right hair care products, a teasing comb and some patience. Washing and conditioning your hair with the Suave Professionals Volumizing Shampoo and the Suave Professionals Volumizing Conditioner will start you off with some instant lift at your roots....

This ponytail style may appeal to those with fine hair, too. Women with fine or thin hair know the struggle with creating the perfect ponytail with volume. With simple hair hacks, you can be well on your way to faking a fuller ponytail without anyone ever knowing. Ahead you’ll learn how to create this volumized ponytail style: **

Self-care can feel like a burden. We can get lost in the gap between where we are and where we think we should be. So, when you’re too tired for self-care, try the three-minute breathing space. First, check in with where you are, what is here for you right now in thoughts, emotions, the body. Just get to know your current experience, wanted or unwanted. Then narrow the attention to the sensation of breathing, the rising and falling of the abdomen with each in-breath and out-breath....

I have a secret I’m going to share with you that I tell the people who come to the Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy groups I lead. You are not so special or so bad. I’m sorry. You are ordinary. I find that such a relief. Trying to live up to some unrealistic standard of who I should be and what I should accomplish is ultimately exhausting and demoralizing. Whose standard is it anyway?...