Staying Sane While Staying Healthy
During this crisis, stay actively engaged in directing your daily life in a healthy manner. It will help you feel less helpless.
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Yes, Illness is a Feminist Issue
When women complain of pain and/or illness we are less likely to be taken seriously than when men do. Consequently, many illnesses have been slow to gain medical attention, especially those whose victims are mostly women.
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Divorce: Coping with Extreme Stress
Divorce, even when you know it is the right thing to do, is one of the most stressful life events people face.
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When It’s the Man With the Low Libido
The cliché of the wife who puts off her husband, pleading that she has a “headache,” is well known. However, many men suffer from low libido as well.
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Finding Your Zone: The Experience of Flow
Finding something to do that puts you in the zone is a blessing. If you know what it is, do it, or do it more. If not, spend some time trying new things that might fit the bill.
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In the Mood for Love:
Romantic Movies for Valentine’s Day
Living vicariously through others’ love affairs helps us remember the feeling of being transported and to re-experience the wild emotions (and even madness) that love drives us to.
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Delay of Gratification: Too Much of a Good Thing
One of the sneakiest, most pernicious forms of self-deprivation involves timing. You don’t outright deny yourself the idea of self-loving action, but you put it off for later.
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Retiring and Unretiring: Blessing or Curse?
A feeling of purpose is not a need that can be put to rest with retirement. Many people of retirement age are choosing to delay it or even go back into the workforce after retiring.
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Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
and Understanding African-American History
“African-American history is not somehow separate than the American story. It is not the underside of the American story. It is central to the American story.” — President Barack Obama
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Knowing Your Value: When to Stay, When to Leave
If you don’t value yourself, you are vulnerable to staying too long in a bad situation.
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Is Living with You a Bed of Roses?
Six Garden Analogies for Self-Improvement
What are you are like to live with? Is it a “bed of roses” to be your partner or spouse? Are there dangerous thorns lurking beneath the sheets?
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Getting Healthy: Self-love and Self-care
If more of us practiced healthy self-care then a less selfish and less angry world would follow.
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The Best Christmas Party Ever!
Although I am essentially an extrovert, I am not entirely crazy about parties. My understanding of parties changed in 1979 when I did a yearlong internship at a state mental hospital in the South Bronx.
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Accepting Imperfection by Embracing Flaws
We have to be aware that as 21st century women, we are especially vulnerable to the distortions of our digital culture emphasizing that a woman is only as valuable as she is pretty.
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Intelligence: What Does it Mean to be, Like, Really Smart
Very intelligent people rarely talk about how smart they are. They are aware of it, but recognize it as a gift, one that must be cultivated. And besides, they are too busy learning new things.
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