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January 4, 2024

What You Should Know About ADHD and Age

I discovered the hard way just how much female sex hormones affect ADHD — like the I-went-to-five-different-doctors-before-anyone-told-me hard way. So let me tell you what I learned so you don't have to go through it too.

December 21, 2023

When Acne Torments You As An Adult

“Have you tried that soap I bought you?” my mother asks, expertly chopping a red onion while I roll my eyes behind her back. I’m a 34-year-old mother of three, and I’ve been battling a persistent case of adult acne for months.

December 14, 2023

What You Didn’t Know (But Should) About Heart Health

Heart disease is the number one cause of death in the United States as well as the leading killer of women ages 25 and up.

December 7, 2023

The College Convo We Should Be Having

If you’ve ever grimaced after a well-meaning friend calls you resilient, you’re not alone. ​“It’s such a complicated word. Ugh,” says author Stephanie Land over the phone.

November 30, 2023

The Beauty of Male Friendships

On a clear, warm weekday evening near the tail end of summer, I stood on a rooftop in the middle of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, feeling feelings.

November 9, 2023

Is Starting Retinol After 40 Even Worth It?

We’ve all heard about it from our friends, seen the memes on social media, or at least read about it somewhere: Retinol is queen bee of this whole anti-aging thing.

November 2, 2023

Is This the Trick to Online Dating?

When it comes to finding love these days, we all need a strategy. At least, that’s what Jennie Young thinks.

October 26, 2023

Surviving Cancer, And Documenting the Journey

High Touch was not supposed to be solely about me or about cancer.

October 18, 2023

Why Is Making Dinner So Hard?

“I am the only one who plans and cooks in our house, and I want to cry sometimes.” In Milwaukee, Erica James* is fed up with the never-ending task of feeding her family.

October 12, 2023

Is it Possible to Resist the Pressures of the Beauty Industry?

After logging time as an editorial staffer on the Kardashian-Jenner apps, and trying her hand in beauty media, writer Jessica DeFino launched her Substack newsletter, The Unpublishable, in 2021.

October 4, 2023

The Mid-Life Friend I Didn’t Know I Needed

I was in my apartment one morning in early spring when my phone rang. It was my brother. As always, he was the one who had phoned me. “Can you do me a favor?” he asked. “I need your help.

September 28, 2023

Looking Back at Tupac With Mature Eyes

In 1996, after news of Tupac’s murder broke, my mother and 15-year-old me got into an argument on the way home from school.

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