All posts tagged "self awareness"

  • understanding the poverty mind

    By Linda Tirado.   This is why poor people’s bad decisions make perfect sense. There’s no way to structure this coherently. They are random observations that might help explain the mental processes. But often, I think that...

    • Posted December 4, 2013
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  • grinch pills
    become your inner grinch this season!

    by Sara Wiseman.   After one too many Black Friday Sales, the Grinch ended up with his heart two sizes too small. Luckily, you don’t have to. Because even Mr. Grinch… the mean one, the one as...

    • Posted December 2, 2013
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  • beat self up
    give up the fight: you don’t need to prove yourself.

    by Lisa L. Payne. Have you thought about giving yourself the gift of self-love this Christmas? How would that change your life? Think about it… From the minute you wake, you would consciously fill yourself with loving...

    • Posted December 2, 2013
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  • Free woman
    f* it! (*forgive) with Abby McDonald

    What is it about us holding on to anger and old wounds, forever-and-ever-amen? I’ve often asked myself this question, when the people who we are begrudging are hardly thinking of us at all, totally clued out and...

    • Posted December 2, 2013
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  • Sonia Solicari curator of
    take risks and be choosy: curate your life

    By Kate Northrup.   When I chose to be an art history major at Brown I thought I’d be a museum curator. I loved the idea of getting to pick and choose what was featured in the...

    • Posted November 26, 2013
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  • day dream
    dreaming the dream but losing steam

    By Darcy Lubow.   This has been one full year for me. While there has been a lot of change, the dreamer in me was dormant for a bit. Moving through major transitions and  finding myself in...

    • Posted November 26, 2013
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  • Unknown
    music that matters: natalie talks tori amos

    If you’re lucky, once in a lifetime, maybe twice, you stumble on a piece of music or even a whole album that opens up everything… your jaw, your eyes, your heart and your mind. I remember the...

    • Posted November 26, 2013
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  • crystal may edit
    crystal andrus: peaceful versus passive

    There’s a big difference. For most of my life, I believed my soul only wanted peace. And while this is true (our soul does want peace), what I didn’t understand was the difference between peaceful and passive...

    • Posted November 26, 2013
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  • meadow linn
    forget the open window–tear the roof off

    By Meadow Linn. A peach is ripe when slightly soft. A melon is ready when its perfume fills a room. And, milk has a “sell-by” date. But, matters of the heart are not so simple. How do...

    • Posted November 25, 2013
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    natalie hughes: loving the house I’m in

    “If you can’t be with the one you love, honey, love the one you’re with.” Maybe Stephen Stills was on to something there. At first listen, the thought of that tag-line lyric is kind of awful, like...

    • Posted November 25, 2013
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