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Reading Time: 5 minutes Research has shown that a short nap (up to 30 minutes) can:
Increase your willpower
Jumpstart your creativity
Enhance your motor skills
Reduce stress
Actually enhance your ability to sleep well that night (as opposed to the caffeine hit)
Elevate your mood
Reading Time: 2 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. With ‘Spygate,’ Trump Shows How He Uses Conspiracy
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The Old and New Testament were not kind to women; we were sold by our fathers, raped by our husbands, and even Mary was impregnated by God without consent. Female choice or pleasure is never been rewarded or even considered in the Bible(s).
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Reading Time: 5 minutes So those kids are released and then they are no longer ORRs responsibility or problem. THIS IS A GOOD THING.
One analogy I heard from my dear friend who I won’t tag without her permission, is that ORR is basically a jailer. Do you want the jail keeping track of where every former inmate is?
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Connection is a powerful thing. Connection is one of my core values so I thrive when I connect.
I was telling my friend about the concert and she said, well if kindness is your message, how could you not reach ages 4 to 74.
Right? We are all connected.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. In the category of: You know you’ve
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Reading Time: 3 minutes This is an inescapable truth. You get out of life, all of it, exactly what you are willing to settle for. No more, no less. Which is why understanding your settling point is so important. It’s not hard to figure out what it is because when you look around your life, you will see evidence of it in every area.
When it comes to relationships it’s particularly easy to spot, because other people reflect it for you. Your settling point will determine how rich and fulfilling your relationships are. They will determine how other people treat you. They will determine how much joy you experience or abuse you endure.
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Reading Time: < 1 minute This talk begins with a personal story of sexual violence that may be difficult to listen to. But that’s the point, says citizen journalist Meera Vijayann: Speaking out on tough, taboo topics is the spark for change. Vijayann uses digital media to speak honestly about her experience of gender violence in her home country of India — and calls on others to speak out too.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes One of the things I found myself doing when I first moved to New York was being incredibly deferential to people who walked with more confidence than me. I would stop to let people pass me on tight sidewalks. I would allow people to barrel past me through doorways – sometimes holding the door for what became hoards of shoppers. I would even let people push me out of the way to get on the train first.
And – to be clear – when I say “people,” mean men.
So, this year I made a commitment to myself to take up more space. It is my incredibly passive-aggressive way of protesting Trump’s America. In my mind, I’m saying “you, white man, will go through this door after me, a black woman because I deserve as much space in this world as you do.”
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. In the category of: Someone Trump can’t fire.
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