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What Is A Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)? Plus, A Quiz To See If You Are One
According to Dr. Aron, HSPs often process information more deeply than others, causing them to make connections between new information and similar experiences. This can also mean an HSP is likely to be more empathetic and aware of the feelings of those around them because of their conscious ability to connect with people’s emotions.
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Can You Increase Your Emotional Intelligence?
When you think of emotional intelligence, you probably think of the ability to identify your emotions. While partly true, emotional intelligence is the practice of being aware, understanding, and in control of our feelings while also seeking to be empathetic toward the emotions of others.
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How To Care For Yourself When You Have Seasonal Depression
SAD describes a type of depression that occurs when the seasons begin to change, typically in the winter months. Symptoms can include drastic mood changes, increased anxiety, and fatigue resulting in low motivation. Sometimes, people experience summer-pattern SAD too, and your primary location can also affect the severity of symptoms.
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How To Feel Safe In Your Own Summer Body
The term “summer body” denotes ideal body types for the season’s activities like wearing a bikini or sunbathing. These standards can be traced back to marketing campaigns used by women’s magazines in the 1960s to sell weight loss products and body enhancers.
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Can Manifest Journaling Help You Create The Life Of Your Dreams?
The viral trend is used in practicing wellness and customizing your lifestyle.
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Here's How Gen Z'ers Can Embrace The Joy Of Missing Out
Instead of feeling fear of missing out, you can find a new positive perspective
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Is Fast Fashion Hurting You More Than It's Helping You?
Some of the most popular clothing brands we shop at may hurt our planet.
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Discover the Beauty of Black Love Through Kennedy Ryan's Words
Why Kennedy Ryan's novels are essential reading for lovers of romance, social justice, and authentic storytelling
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Asase Yaa Opens Bed-Stuy Fitness Studio to Energize, Unite Brooklyn Community
Bedford Stuyvesant's newest fitness studio offers Afrobeat and West African dance classes, yoga and boxing.
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How To Start Addressing Financial Trauma, the Mental Health Phenomenon That Affects Your Financial Well-Being
Financial trauma, a term recently coined and made popular by Galen Buckwalter, PhD, a psychological research scientist, describes a state of extreme stress and anxiousness people have toward their financial obligations.
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A Look Inside Brooklyn's New Wellness Hub For The BIPOC Community
AsafespaceStudio, which began as a community meet-up for Black and brown folks during the height of the pandemic, will now become a holistic wellness space in Sunset Park.
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Why This Teacher Created a Cool Down Corner in Her Apartment
If you find yourself needing a new environment in your home, here are some tips to help you build your cool down corner.
