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Reading Time: < 1 minute Impostor syndrome (i.e. feeling like a fraud) affects a whopping 70% of us, according to research. It hurts our happiness, our emotional and mental health, as well as our bank balances, careers and the impact we were born to make
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Reading Time: 2 minutes While many people often wish maintaining good health was as easy as following an equation, health doesn’t have a start or end date. Once the allure of the new year wears off, it can be easy to let those resolutions go by the wayside.
When you focus on making small, positive changes, you can move your health goals forward throughout the year, no matter where you are on your health journey. To help stay on track, consider these easy-to-implement ideas from registered dietitian Annessa Chumbley:
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Reading Time: 3 minutes The first day of the week is devoted entirely to journaling and inner work and the weekly nest-maintenance things like laundry, floors and bathrooms.
The inner work sets the tone for the day,
which makes the housekeepery become an extension of the inner work.
Reading Time: 3 minutes What could you do if you reclaimed the space, and the time, and the bandwidth that your house is currently holding hostage?
And here’s another heretic thought …
What if your home isn’t actually the reason you haven’t started writing that novel, or gone back to school, or made time for therapeutic bubble baths?
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Reading Time: < 1 minute You never know what you’re going to find on the internet, and Ellen discovered a food critic you’ll love as much as she does!
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Reading Time: < 1 minute An Eccentric is Not Trying to Define Themselves. They are born seeking a different way.
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Reading Time: 3 minutes “The country is facing intertwined crises of opioid misuse and chronic pain management. Non-opioid, non-pharmacological treatments such as acupuncture and other similar interventions can be essential in handling patients’ pain management as a complement to lessen dependency on opioid prescriptions and serve as a more effective holistic therapy for chronic pain,” said Dr. Kory Ward-Cook, chief executive officer of the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM). “The care provided by NCCAOM National Board-Certified Acupuncturists is essential in continuing the movement toward greater integrative and complementary pain care, especially as a non-pharmaceutical alternative to harmful opioid prescriptions.”
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Reading Time: < 1 minute “You’re here until you’re dead. So, you might as well do shit.” Welcome to The J.Lo Center For Health and Wellness™, where you’ll learn how to reinvent yourself at any age. Take notes, ladies.
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Reading Time: 5 minutes I do not wonder about this: Thanksgiving really has nothing to do with Native Americans, and everything to do with an old (but not the oldest) guard conjuring a lie of the first peoples welcoming the settlers to bolster their false authority over what makes a “real” American. (Remember, only in 1924 were Native Americans allowed to become citizens of the United States — and it took decades more for all states to permit us to vote.) It is a story of supposed unity, drained of the bloodshed, and built for the sake of division.
Many of my indigenous brothers and sisters refuse to celebrate Thanksgiving, protesting the whitewashing of the horrors our ancestors went through, and I don’t blame them. But I have not abandoned the holiday. I have just changed how I practice it.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes It may feel impossible to fit even more into already jam-packed days, but when the holidays roll around, entertaining and celebrating always find a way. Fortunately, you can find some shortcuts when hosting that offer plenty of festive style while also helping you avoid stressing over every detail.
This year, rely on some time-saving hacks so you’re not just throwing the holiday party, but enjoying some seasonal fun of your own.
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