Category: Articles
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How to Stop Being An Impulse Buyer
I have to make a confession which I feel is one of the first steps toward recovery. I am an impulse buyer. I buy things on a whim. I buy things based on emotions. I buy things just to buy them. It becomes especially troublesome with Amazon prime. It’s like Christmas every two days. At…
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Wealthy Rush to Aid Notre Dame, Why Not Others?
It is sad to see that a historical landmark like Notre Dame has been damaged and ravaged by fire. The cathedral has stood for hundreds of years, inspired countless artists, and stories like The Hunchback of Notre Dame. While the bell towers were saved, the roof and spire toppled and crumbled down. Many entities are…
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Are Braces or Invisalign Better?
Through the twisted hands of fate, I ended up having to use both braces and Invisalign in my lifetime. I had braces as a kid and the aligners as an adult. Why both you ask? Because I got the braces before my wisdom teeth grew in. So yes my teeth got straightened, but it all came…
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How To Harmoniously Live With A Partner
There are some universal skills that I feel both parties in a relationship must bring to the table for a cohabitation to truly flourish and last. These basics center on the ability to care for yourself. It is crucial you know how to do so before trying to shirk the responsibility onto your partner. It…
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Why You Don’t Want To Be Their Everything
In relationships, we often consider it to be romantic when someone considers you their everything. We think, I mean so much to them, I feel important. Which can feel great initially but become taxing and draining as time goes on. When you are literally everything to someone, you have so many roles to play. Some…
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Why You Shouldn’t Treat Your Partner Like A Project
For a vast majority of women, we tend to view the men in our lives like projects. On the one hand it is understandable because of our innate creative capacity. I mean, we have the power to create and bring forth life! However, when it comes to the men we are dating we need to…
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Are You Carrying On Bad Behavior From Past Relationships?
When it comes to relationships, we can try our best to be good to someone but not realize that our definition of ‘good’ can be tainted. We can express learned toxic behaviors that we came to believe were positive when in fact they were not. You can hope to be wonderful to someone but not…
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How To Make Peace With Your Arm Hair as a Woman
As a woman, there is this overwhelming expectation that you must be as hair free as a naked mole rat. Like the concept of hair on a woman seems ludicrous and disgusting. Growing up I was bullied and jeered at for being hairy. It’s not something that I consciously chose to do. It just was a…
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Why You Shouldn’t Ignore Yourself
We tend to be oversaturated with information. Whether it comes from the television, social media outlets, or the internet in general. All we have are distractions from what is going on in the here and now. What is most problematic about this is the numbing effect it has on our self-awareness. We see other people’s…
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How You Can Keep Medical Costs Low
One of the worst things about being in the United States is how costly it is to be sick or get treated here. Sometimes people can sink into tremendous debt to the point where they lose their homes. It is sad things are that way but maybe one day it can change, especially if we…
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