Wellness
A New 3-Day Yoga and Electronic Music Festival Is Coming to Colorado
In a cozy winter wonderland nestled just outside of Aspen, Colorado the debut Drishti Beats Yoga & Music Festival will unfold next month. Be it through skiing in the winter or mountain biking in the summer, travelers typically visit Snowmass to connect with the natural world. But soon visitors to Snowmass will connect with Mother Earth through the vitalizing combination of electronic music and yoga at Drishti Beats, which kicks off the weekend of July 8th, 2022. Drishti Beats was an act born out of the desire to explore the connection between movement and music through the “yogi” lens. Initially starting as a niche attraction within the festival and fitness communities, the brand has since expanded to support a standalone festival in its own right. A yoga ses...
Justin Bieber Offering $3 Million in Free Therapy to Fans and Crew
Justin Bieber is likely raking in millions on his 98-date “Justice World Tour,” but he’s sharing the wealth by financing therapy for his fans and crew. The pop star has teamed up with affordable therapy service BetterHelp to offer mental health assistance of up to $3,000,000 in value. “The one thing I’ve learned over the years is that we all go through our ups and downs, and we all need help sometimes,” Bieber said in a statement. “Being able to offer access to free therapy to my fans and tour family is a real blessing, and I’m humbled to be able to do it.” Perhaps aware of the toll that working away from home for months on end — and in a pandemic, no less — can have on touring musicians, Bieber’s deal prioritizes his crew, offering his 250+ person team free access to 18 months of therapy....
New Experience Uses Trippy Lights and Electronic Music to Induce Hallucinations From Behind Closed Eyelids
Jon Hopkins‘ music has found another use case in the world of wellness. The Grammy-nominated electronic music producer, whose recent album Music for Psychedelic Therapy became a framework for guiding people through healing while in an altered state, is once more strategically leading listeners to a state of relaxation. Dreamachine, a new installation created by award-winning architecture studio Assemble, aims to create a unique visual experience through the use of flickering lights. Visitors enter the “machine” room and lie down with their eyes closed as lights blitz the space in variable patterns. Behind closed eyelids, the lights stimulate the optic nerve, leading to prismatic visuals and colors. Ambient music from Hopkins is soundtracking the experience, which research...
Can CBD Help Prevent Covid-19? A University of Chicago Study Thinks So
In recent years, CBD products have become part of mainstream wellness culture, known to be helpful in curbing the effects of anxiety, chronic pain, and depression. Could CBD be a part of the conversation around preventing coronavirus, too? A 2022 study from UChicago Medicine suggests that high-purity CBD may help block coronavirus from replicating. The science, which was corroborated by a paper from ScienceAdvances (science.org), identified two compounds — CBDa and CBGa — that could perhaps also prevent the virus that causes COVID-19 from entering human cells. Essentially, CBD has the potential to prime the body to protect itself from the virus that causes COVID-19. It sounds like scientists unlocked this new direction almost by happenstance while studying the already established anti-infl...
Relax for Less with 30% Off CBD Simple Salves, Chill Pills, and Flower Bags
As the new year starts to ramp up, so too do all our daily stresses. That’s why Consequence Shop is helping you relax for less with our 30% off sale on Flower Lab CBD simple salves, chill pills, and mylar bags of flower. Looking to soothe your muscles after a hard workout or just ease those lingering aches and pains? Try Flower Lab’s Simple Salve, a natural topical balm designed for daily use. We combine calming botanicals with our full-spectrum cannabinoids — extracted by a solvent-less process — into a herbaceous, non-oily formula that delivers 800mg of CBD per jar. To help with your mental relaxation, there’s Flower Lab’s Chill Pills. These vegetable cellulose capsules are each loaded with 25mg of CBD in an organic coconut oil. Our proprietary extraction process ensures each pill will p...
Ask Dr. Mike: Making Mental Health Your New Year’s Resolution
Supplementing the Going There with Dr. Mike podcast presented by Consequence and Sound Mind Live, the monthly “Ask Dr. Mike” column is here to answer listeners’ questions. As we come up on the New Year, Dr. Mike is here to help us set intention with our resolutions to take care of our mental health. Right now, many of us are looking ahead towards the New Year as a time to make change in our lives. We think about who we are at this moment, and who we want to be at the end of the upcoming year. We craft goals in the form of New Year’s resolutions that we hope will help us attain our life’s vision. It can be a very exciting time, full of promise and hope that we can improve the quality of our lives. Over the past year on the Going There with Dr. Mike podcast, we have...
Grace Gaustad Unlocks the “Black Box” of Mental Health
Listen via: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Pandora | Stitcher | Google | Pocket Casts | Radio Public | RSS Singer-songwriter Grace Gaustad joins the Going There podcast to unlock that “black box” of mental health, particularly when it comes to the lasting effects of anti-LGBTQ+ bullying. Speaking with Dr. Mike, Gaustad describes how she was bullied because of her sexuality, and how that triggered her becoming severely depressed. Related Video The BLKBX: wht r u hding? musician explains how she started the non-profit organization the BLKBX Project in conjunction with her new album release. This organization focuses on teen mental illness, and addresses the fact that most people face stressful and traumatic issues such as bullying and mental illness in isolation. It’s not uncommon to struggle in...
Logic’s Anti-Suicide Anthem “1-800-273-8255” Saved Hundreds of Lives: Study
Its “I don’t wanna be alive” refrain may have become a jokey TikTok trend, but Logic’s anti-suicide anthem “1-800-273-8255” really did save lives. A new study from the BMJ, a peer-reviewed medical trade journal from the British Medical Association, ties performances of the song to a decrease in suicide rates among teenagers. In the days after Logic performed the song — which takes its name from the number of the US National Suicide Prevention Hotline — at the MTV Video Music Awards in August 2017, the organization said calls to the lifeline increased by 50%. In addition to this, the BMJ studied suicide rates around this time frame, as well as around the song’s April 2017 release, and around a 2018 performance of the song at the Grammy Awards. In doing so, they found a 5.5% reduction in sui...
The Consequence Shop Holiday Sale: Get Up to 50% Off Storewide
The Consequence Shop is bringing you holiday cheer and holiday deals with our biggest sale of the year! From December 11th through 26th, we’re offering up to 50% off all our custom apparel, masks, CBD, and Delta-8 products storewide. First off, all our latest collections and T-shirts are now 20% off. That includes our extra comfy embroidered hoodies, stylish tie-dye beanies, the rocking Hell’s a Beach hoodies and T-shirts, and our entire Wavvy Collection featuring tees, crop tops, and sweatshirts. Plus, all GWAR Bud of Gods apparel, Punk Is Dead, Stanning BTS, and Radiate Positivity tees are also 20% off! All of our original masks — like the best-selling Chevron design, the limited edition Consequence logo mask, and the Bolt mask — are all available for 50% off! Check out th...
Ask Dr. Mike: The Big Lie We Tell Ourselves About Substance Abuse
Supplementing the Going There with Dr. Mike podcast presented by Consequence and Sound Mind Live, the monthly “Ask Dr. Mike” column is here to answer listeners’ questions about their mental health. This past month’s episodes focused on Substance Abuse, and with the holiday season rife with reasons to turn to unhealthy behavior, Dr. Mike is here to help demystify the reasons why we often turn to such bad habits. The holiday season is upon us once again. For many people, this can be a wonderful time in our lives filled with holiday parties, seeing family and friends, and exchanging gifts and gratitude. It’s also the time where we often find ourselves engaging in a range of unhealthy behaviors that are intended to be celebratory in nature. Those behaviors may range from bi...
Consequence Shop’s Black Friday & Cyber Monday BOGO Sale Starts Now
Thanksgiving is right around the corner, but you don’t have to wait to digest your turkey before you get some great deals. The Consequence Shop’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday buy-one-get-one sale is starting now! From November 19th through the 30th, we’re giving you up to 50% off a number of our top-selling items when you buy one at full price. Pick up any item in our Protect Live Music line, for example, and get 50% off one of our custom Consequence logo beanies or our new tie-dye logo beanies. Use promo code BOGO 2. Even new products are part of the deals! Snag some of the new Winter Collection hoodies, sweatpants, or tie-dye beanies; one of our fresh Wavvy crop tops, T-Shirts, and crewneck sweatshirts; Hell’s a Beach T-shirts and hoodies; Radiate Positivity Hurricane Ida reli...
How UPSAHL Coped with Breakup Anxiety
Listen via: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Pandora | Stitcher | Google | Pocket Casts | Radio Public | RSS It’s common to struggle with anxiety following a difficult breakup, something UPSAHL knows all too well. She joined Dr. Mike Friedman on the Going There podcast to discuss how she dealt with being in her feelings. Advertisement Related Video One of the things that is so difficult about breakups is how central our relationships, particularly romantic ones, can be in our lives. Thus when we have a split, it can feel like our whole being has been undermined. UPSAHL talks about feeling like her sense of self was so rattled that she was having an “identity crisis.” In this episode of Going There, she reveals h...
