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10 Spring Mood Lifters

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Spring is in the air, and everything is blossoming. Why shouldn’t you be in bloom, too? It’s time to leave Winter behind and transform, like a butterfly, into your best, most beautiful self—inside and out. From brightening up your makeup…
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7 Happy Foods to Elevate Your Mood

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Do happy foods exist? Can eating them make you happy? We’re not talking about the temporary comfort of curling up on the couch with a half-gallon of ice cream and a spoon. Researchers have long documented links between food and mood—there…
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Finding Solitude in a Frenzied World

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Only in solitude do we find ourselves: and in finding ourselves, we find ourselves in all our brothers in solitude. —Miguel de Unamuno We live in a world of noise and to-do lists, surrounded by people who need us: our children, partners,…
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Self-Esteem: How I Went From Ugly Duckling to Beautiful Swan

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UPDATED August 1st, 2016 If you’ve ever wondered how a good looking, successful woman could suffer from poor self-esteem, the answer may lie in her childhood. I am living proof of that, and fortunately evolved from an insecure young girl…
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Body Image: How to Love Your Body Just the Way it Is

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Who hasn’t felt bummed at the supermarket checkout, reading headlines and admiring those “after” pictures for Get a Great Summer Body in Just 3 Weeks articles. The woman in the photo spread didn’t go on a diet to look like that and…
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Spring Forward! Time to Leave the Winter Blues Behind!

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It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is.  And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!  —Mark Twain Sunlight, budding flowers,…
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Coping with a Midlife Crisis

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The term Midlife Crisis originated with Sigmund Freud, who thought that in middle age, people began to be plagued by the fear of impending death. Since Freud’s coining of the phrase, the term is widespread in our culture and is often used…
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Suicide in America

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Suicide is the second leading cause of death among 25-34-year olds, the third leading cause of death among 15-24-year olds, and almost 16% of high schoolers have reported seriously considering suicide. These are just a few of the alarming statistics…
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How to Worry Less & Live More

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Worry is defined as the anticipation of a negative future event. Healthy worrying helps us to find a solution to a problem that is likely to arise. This is proactive. However, unhealthy, obsessive worrying can be debilitating, paralyzing and…