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Julie K. Jones, Ph.D. LPC
5 New Ways to Reconnect With Your Teen & Why They Need You More Than Ever
by Julie K. Jones, Ph.D. LPC
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There’s an intense debate swirling around us as to the state of teenage-dom in today’s world. Is bullying an old thing that’s getting new attention? Or is it quantitatively or qualitatively worse? Are kids less resilient than ever before, or are the pressures just that much greater? Are they meaner to one another? Or is cruelty just more visible than it was before?There could be some truth to all of... 2/18/2019 8:00:00 AM
Wellness Editor
How Love Literally Changes a Woman's Body
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Not much compares to falling in love. The world becomes a different place, and you may become a different person. Literally. According to a new study, falling in love can even cause physical changes in women.A recent study at UCLA revealed women undergo immunological changes when they fall in love. Researchers can still only speculate, but they believe the changes may be related to the body preparing... 2/15/2019 8:00:00 AM
Paisley Hansen
Tips to Increase Your Beauty Self Esteem
by Paisley Hansen
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If you scour the internet for the best beauty tips, you will be bombarded with over a billion results in a second. This solid fact solely proves that our contemporary world is more fixated on how to fix rather than how to embrace and appreciate who we truly are inside and out. The sad part is that, most of us have internalized the few negative comments we have received in the past that we do not remember... 2/14/2019 8:00:00 AM
Paisley Hansen
4 Science-Proven Ways to Lose Weight
by Paisley Hansen
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Have you ever been on a diet? Most people have. This is how it goes: you start the diet and feel great for the first few days. After a week, you think that you’ve done enough to earn a "cheat" meal. You eat everything you couldn’t eat before, remember how good the food tasted, and then give up on the diet. There are other varieties of this same situation, but it always ends the same--you give up on... 2/13/2019 10:00:00 PM
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New Addiction Gives Birth to New Treatment Programs
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Addiction has taken a new form, and it’s affecting a surprisingly broad range of people. Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD) affects up to 8.2% of the population. It can cause isolation, depression, anxiety and physical complications from excessive computer activity. Much is still unknown about Internet Addiction Disorder, but researchers agree that it’s a huge problem for hundreds of millions of people... 2/12/2019 10:00:00 PM
Megan Johnson McCullough
Heat or Ice: When to Use These Them
by Megan Johnson McCullough
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Heat and ice are natural at-home remedies for many aches and pains. However, depending on your particular problem, there is a preferential treatment for alleviation. In general, heat increases blood flow which helps tight muscles to relax and helps stiff joints loosen up. Ice works by constricting blood flow which numbs pain, reduces inflammation, and helps prevent bruising.HEATIn general, heat is... 2/12/2019 8:00:00 AM
Deva Joy Gouss
The Goodness Breath for Wellness in Trying Times
by Deva Joy Gouss
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The Goodness Breath Project is an antidote for the negativity that is trigged by these difficult times of chaos. It is not something I was thinking about when the ideas of the Goodness Breath Project insisted on being known. I was in the process of writing an article about personal fulfillment and self-actualization when these ideas about goodness started pouring out of me and my fingers couldn’t type... 2/12/2019 8:00:00 AM
Megan Johnson McCullough
Body Hair: Our Furry Coat
by Megan Johnson McCullough
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Body hair, termed androgenic hair, develops on the body during the years of puberty. Hair is all over our bodies. We have eyebrows, facial, arm, leg, chest, and pubic hair. We need this hair to regulate our body temperature. When it’s cold, the hairs stand up because the tiny muscles surrounding the hair follicles are trying to trap more heat. This is when we see goosebumps on our skin.Fine hairs found... 2/12/2019 8:00:00 AM
Gary Roe
7 Things My Son's Cancer Taught Me
by Gary Roe
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"Carcinoma."All the other words the doctor said before this paled. It was this last word that mattered.We thought it was just a lesion. After all, our son (Aaron) was 15. Yeah, some kids develop cancer, but not ours. That happens to other people.The next 3 months were a blur. Phone calls. Emails. Appointments. Exams. Scans and blood work. Surgery. And, because of where we live, all of this was 2 hours... 2/6/2019 8:00:00 AM
Jonathan Raymond
Cultivating Corporate Wellness - Are We Clear About Accountability?
by Jonathan Raymond
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Every leader I’ve ever met sees accountability as foundational to a healthy, sustainable culture. The problem is, we use the word without really understanding what it means.Usually, we are holding on to one or both of these hidden beliefs. We have a deeply held association between accountability and punishment — instead of considering it a tool to help people grow. Or we have a deeply held assumption... 2/5/2019 8:00:00 AM
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