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This week, several women in my sphere have bemoaned feeling blue. The worst part about feeling a little worse for wear is not having the energy to do the things you usually love. While perhaps a walk through the park or a trip to the accessories department of Forever 21 would…
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During those first few years, bath time with your baby can be a lovely mix of sweet and sudsy, slippery and scary. Getting an infant or even a wiggly toddler into the tub, surrounded by water that is just the right temperature, thoroughly cleaned, and then out, wrapped, diapered, and clothed can be precarious. Read More »
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Getting Along With Family
Family members are often our greatest and most difficult ongoing teachers.
A reader of my blog "Getting Along with Difficult People" (www.theawarenessinitiative.com/blog) asked how to get along with family…
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Maybe all of the lessons we have learned are preparing us for an astounding second act, the one that will bring us a standing ovation at the end! We will have learned all of our lines, smoothed out the rough edges, and gotten rid of any stage fright we may have had. Perhaps in the second act we are really beginning to relax, enjoy our own show, and take the stage as our own. Read More »
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Over the next several weeks I will begin to transform this blog into one that focuses on those of us who are entering, or have already entered, the second half of our lives. If you are in your forties or older, this blog is for you! I would like to make this our… Read More »
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There is a school of thought that suggests that anger, frustration, rage, anxiety and resentment in women have caused significant increases in certain types of “female diseases.” It is believed that over time, constant and unexpressed negative thoughts, ideas, and emotions weaken our bodies and make them vulnerable to diseases of the breast, uterus, ovaries, vagina and cervix. Read More »
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“It is not what you eat, but what eats you that will kill you.” Anonymous
Emotional eating is defined as the learned habit of eating that comes in response to boredom, stress, fatigue, depression, anger, anxiety, or loneliness. Emotional eating is used to fill…
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For most, if not all of us, our kids are out of school for summer vacation. I don't know about you, but when school is out for my young people, my summer vacation begins! As a mom, I am no longer completely tied to their schedules and I can relax a bit. It is now that I have the opportunity…
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We've written about baring bellies here before. Many times. We've even braved the territory of post-partum bodies. We've shown photos of very real women's bellies, most a far cry from the Heidi Klum incredibly-shrinking-ab-machine celebrities of the world that we normally give more attention to on television than we give to our own mid-sections in the mirror.
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Even prior to becoming a mom, I was a woman obsessed with having first aid kits always at the ready. I'm not one to go from headache to brain tumor (much anyway), but I'll admit to seeing accidents everywhere. Kitchen first aid kit? Check (knives, scissors,can… Read More »
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