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Reading Time: 2 minutes I hear it all the time, “how did I miss the signs?” at the end of a relationship hindsight is 20/20. It’s not because you were stupid. It’s because falling in love causes temporary insanity, literally. So how’s a girl to know?
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Reading Time: 6 minutes Words matter because they carry meaning and sometimes that meaning isn’t clear to everyone. We hear the words “dog whistle” politics more and more frequently for a reason. Figuratively, a ‘dog whistle’ is a coded message communicated through words or phrases commonly understood by a particular group of people, but not by others.
Some of us hear the word animal in the context Trump used it and we are alarmed. Others hear it as a rallying cry. There is no clearer dog whistle for racists than the language of dehumanization. When the President of the United States of America blows a dog whistle like that, people hear it and it has consequences.
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Reading Time: 8 minutes On Mother’s Day, I put a post out on Facebook applauding mothers. It was an interesting post to me as it was a spur of the moment post. I mentioned how the Bible asks us to honor our mother and father, so our lives would be long. I was reflecting on why that is the only one of the ten commandments that has a “reward.” I waxed poetic about mothering and I also said sometimes, honoring our parents means keeping our distance if the relationship was abusive.
I was surprised at the attention this post got. I had several private messages in my inbox and several comments on the post that were quite negative. I was even asked to take down the post as it was the kind of thing that endorsed abusive behaviors from mothers to children and also promoted glorifying womanhood. Some of the comments also indicated that it was anti-feminist of me to glorify motherhood.
It turns out that this was a cultural issue! Yup! Culture! Not a blind spot but culture!
Reading Time: 2 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. In the category of: Yes, your tax dollars
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Confidence is a feeling… and we’ll feel confident when we think confident thoughts.
For anyone… especially kids struggling to fit in among peers… learning confidence can be life-altering. We don’t have to deserve it, work for it, be worthy of it or achieve it. Instead, the way we learn it is to be it. Confidence is a state of mind that results from thinking confident thoughts and enjoying confident feelings.
As parents, we can help kids create a confident mindset they’ll benefit from all throughout their lives.
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Reading Time: 5 minutes The benefits of reducing energy entanglement are reduced stress, anxiety, self-doubt and increased peace of mind, inspiration and confidence. This further results in our physical and emotional well-being. And when we are physically and emotionally healthy and strong we start to successfully manifest all our goals.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes This gleaming day also included lots of handholding, “a room full of happiness,” and fiery love prophets; a proud and teary, independent, free-spirited mother-of-the bride as well as the fragrance of white garden roses arranged in memory of the groom’s own unforgettable mother. Then there were those gentlemanly gestures in honor of the emerging modern woman and the legacy she represents. There is indeed something deeper brewing here and we are all invited to the love revolution!
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. In the category of: Gentrification of a whole
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Reading Time: 6 minutes This leafy green gives you more nutritional value – with fewer calories – than just about any other food or vegetable!
It contains more than 45 different flavonoids – such as quercetin – which provide both antioxidant and anti-inflammatory benefits. Because of this, eating your kale will do its part to help you limit the discomfort of chronic inflammations.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes My question is, Do you ever feel sexy or desiring of sex when you’re on your period? If yes, that’s a clue that it’s something you shouldn’t ignore, and I encourage to ask your safe and supporting partner what you just asked me: “I know that we usually abstain from sex when I’m bleeding but I’m wondering if you’d be comfortable fooling around with me when I am?”
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