Food Stamps, Joe Bidden, Kamala Harris: 3 Stories You Should Read 1/21/2019
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The Root: How to Identify and Report Hate Speech on Social Media
Reading Time: 11 minutes Platforms like Twitter and Facebook have tools in place that allow users to report harassment and hate speech, though the sites’ limitations mean too many reports tend to go unaddressed. Still, it’s worth making the effort if you see threatening messages online. There are also outside sources you can turn to if you stumble upon disturbing bias acts on social media. But first:
It’s fairly easy to report hate speech on major social media platforms. It’s less easy to get the platforms to take action against purported hate speech.
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WORKAHOLISM DOESN’T MAKE YOU MORE PRODUCTIVE. HERE’S WHY.
Reading Time: 4 minutes As you might expect, having an all-consuming devotion to work is linked to a variety of undesirable outcomes. For example, workaholism is linked to work-family conflict, or having competing, and often conflicting demands in one’s professional and private spheres. In turn, work-family conflict can decrease satisfaction with one’s family, or even one’s life as a whole. After all, if your significant other or children are complaining that you’re not present enough at home, and you’re simultaneously feeling that you’re not living up to the demands of your job, it can be a pretty stressful and conflicted existence. Consequently, it’s not surprising that workaholism is also linked to burnout.
By definition, workaholism makes it difficult to psychologically detach from work, and can interfere with the individual’s ability to recharge and recover from the job.
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Super blood wolf moon Eclipse – AAAOOOOOOWWHHH!!!
Reading Time: 5 minutes We have a busy astro week this week, including a gorgeous Full Moon Eclipse in Leo (exact times below). And with all the major planets in forward motion, not a Retrograde to be seen, there’s a definite surge of forward momentum at play.
Which is fantastic in these last two weeks before we plunge into the Chinese New Year of the Pig, known for its favourable outlook on prosperity, good luck, and happiness.
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I WASN’T SUPPOSED TO BE HERE – WHY I AM PRO-CHOICE, EVEN THOUGH I WAS MEANT TO BE ABORTED
Reading Time: 10 minutes As for myself, I mostly feel alright with existing now, with my purpose here, my worth.
It’s sometimes a precarious thing, my hold on this life, like a fragile vase in a window which could tip one way or another in a breeze – tipping gently and safely to the table nearby or smashing fatally down to the garden below – but inside are pink scented lilies and beauty, so I go on, day by day, month by month, year by year, and gradually I find, as my Buddhist teacher once told me, that, though I wasn’t invited to this party, people like my presence and I like the music and chitchat and, mostly, it all makes me very happy.
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State of the Union, Pelosi, Cohen: 3 Stories You Should Read 1/18/2019
Reading Time: 2 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. In the category of: It’s hard to overstate what
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Happy Birthday to Our Forever Favorite First Lady, Michelle Obama
Reading Time: < 1 minute When Donald Trump goes low, Michelle Obama goes high.
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A Full Moon Ritual for Love
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ritual is powered by intention. And intention gets amplified by focused attention and emotion. What we focus on expands, and our feelings and emotions are powerful magnifiers for energy.
A ritual is different from a habit. I’ve often referred to my beloved bedtime tea drinking as part of my “nighttime ritual” – and certainly, you can celebrate tea drinking with ritual – in fact, there are whole ceremonies for tea drinking. However, my own nighttime tea drinking is more of a habit than a ritual. However, if I bring intention into the mix, I’m leaning towards ritual because a ritual is imbued with intention.
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Five Must Have’s to Be a Successful Light Worker
Reading Time: 3 minutes If you use energy or consciousness as a medium for the work you do, whether it be as a coach, healer, reader or practitioner, you’ve already become in tune with your inner world. Or at least most of your practices are ones that get you deeper into your inner world.
And even if you aren’t offering your services to others and only doing the work for yourself, there are a few things that are building blocks if you want to be successful in your practice.
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I was groomed as a teenager – here’s what it looked like.
Reading Time: 5 minutes With all of the talk surrounding R. Kelly (and let’s not forget that whole Drake and Millie Bobby Brown thing), I wanted to share my own story of being groomed. It isn’t cinematic and it wasn’t overt, but it happened. Luckily I was unharmed, but what I remember most that it felt like a natural step towards adulthood. I thought to myself, what teenage girl doesn’t have a dalliance – however small – with an older man? Looking back now I see that this feeling – that it’s normal, that it’s part of growing up – is the danger. Because not only is it perceived by many girls as normal, it’s a dream come true.
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