The movement to decriminalize naturally occurring psychedelics, says Decriminalize Nature cofounder and chair Carlos Plazola, isn’t just about making these drugs no longer illegal. It’s about creating a world inclined toward community, healing, and compassion.

Angela Christiano, PhD, had recently started as an assistant professor at Columbia University when her hairdresser noticed a bald patch on the back of her head. She was diagnosed with alopecia areata and told that the hair loss might or might not progress to her entire scalp or her entire body—and that there was no cure. Twenty-five years later, there is finally a treatment for alopecia areata, a drug that Christiano’s research was central in identifying.

Researchers are still uncovering how time is processed in the brain. But our perception of time is just that: our perception. You can play with ways to speed up time in the dullest moments—and slow it down when you want a moment to last.

Microdosing is the practice of using a small amount of a psychedelic substance with the hope of enhancing well-being. Science has not yet confirmed whether microdosing works, but advocates claim it has vast benefits that are worth further research.

No matter what you go to energy healer Lisa Cooney for, she’ll ultimately guide you to an early-childhood experience where you felt trauma for the first time. And she’ll help you energetically untangle the link between what you believed about yourself then and who you are now.

In early adulthood, most of us face a choice between security and what gives us meaning, purpose, and identity. Psychotherapist Satya Doyle Byock believes there’s a middle ground.

We went to six sex experts, advocates, and founders with one question: How do you get creative, sexually? And we got six different takes on mixing it up with a lover, mixing it up alone, sexting, sex toys, and the erotic power of a wandering mind.

When you ignore an injury and hope it’ll go away on its own, it eventually catches up with you. Wellness editor Kelly Martin will never do that again. But she’s found what works if you’re already in her situation: good myofascial treatment, regular corrective exercise, and a collection of at-home tools for long-term healing.