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Want Respect? Make Boundaries.

If you want respect, make those boundaries count. Boundaries help keep others from walking all over you like a doormat. Without them, others feel that they can get away with pushing you around – those limits you have? They don’t know about them. Voice your limits and solidify them. No means no. Respect And Boundaries...

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Don’t Stop Trying – Listen To That Voice

Don’t stop trying – tomorrow is another day. Rome wasn’t built in one day, right? So, don’t expect major results over night. They require a lot of hard work and time. But, that’s what makes reaching those goals so rewarding. To keep that inspiration going, here are three activities you can try. Meditate Try meditation...

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Narcissists Rewrite History To Make You Crazy

Narcissists like to rewrite history for many different reasons – all of which are to keep themselves on their pedestal of lies. It’s hard to keep from falling straight into their fantasy world where they’re the super heroes and the people around them are either the villains or simply in distress. You’re not crazy –...

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The Silent Treatment Is The Passive Aggressive’s Best Weapon

The silent treatment is the passive aggressive’s go-to tool of control and abuse because it really hurts. It’s like nuclear annulation. When someone isn’t talking to you, looking at you or listening to you, you are effectively shut down, shut out. The weapon that erases you You may feel crazy. You wonder what’s wrong. What...

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How To Respond To Negative People Will Surprise You

How to respond to negative people is not what you think. Let’s face it. Negative people tend to make us fell bad. Do you have a friend or relative who shoots down every idea you have, good or bad? Does that make you feel helpless and useless? Do you just want to rip your face...

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Safe Relationships Free You To Be Yourself

Safe relationships are big spaces with plenty of room to breathe if any relationship makes you feel like you’re living in a tiny box or closet, it’s not a safe relationship. Do you often feel boxed in a corner? Do you feel judged and battled in every conversation. Safe relationships let you feel free to...

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Women’s Risk for Alcohol Deaths Rising

Over the past 20 years, the U.S. has seen a dramatic increase in alcohol use—and that surge is mainly among women. According to a new study, alcohol-related deaths in the States jumped from just under 36,000 in 1999 to nearly 73,000 in 2017, with the greatest increases found among women and people who were middle-aged...

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A New Study Finds Women Are at an Increased Risk for Alcohol-Related Deaths | Vogue

Over the past 20 years, the U.S. has seen a dramatic increase in alcohol use—and that surge is mainly among women. According to a new study, alcohol-related deaths in the States jumped from just under 36,000 in 1999 to nearly 73,000 in 2017, with the greatest increases found among women and people who were middle-aged...

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The Willpower Myth Buster What You Really Need to Succeed

Is this the year you’re going to run a marathon, cut out processed sugars and finally apply for that promotion you’ve been after? If only you had enough willpower or self-control to see that plan through, right? Wrong, according to clinical psychologist and adjunct professor at Georgetown University, Jelena Kecmanovic. “A big misconception [about willpower]...

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The Biggest Myth About Willpower May Be That You Don’t Have Enough Of It

Is this the year you’re going to run a marathon, cut out processed sugars and finally apply for that promotion you’ve been after? If only you had enough willpower or self-control to see that plan through, right? Wrong, according to clinical psychologist and adjunct professor at Georgetown University, Jelena Kecmanovic. “A big misconception [about willpower]...

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