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Children

Children it kills you to see them grow up, but I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t- Barbara Kingsolver Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your likes and passing the real life wisdom on … Continue reading

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Mindfulness

Mindfulness helps patients cultivate present-moment awareness, enabling them to observe and describe what is occurring without judgment. Mindfulness effectively counteracts viewing the present through the lens of distorted hopes, expectations, and past experiences of rejection and abandonment. Many patients believe … Continue reading

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Couples & Money

We try to balance our savings so that she—as a mother and a Black femme—isn’t locked into our relationship by financial dependence.But as long as there is a pay disparity between us, there is going to have to be a … Continue reading

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Inquire Within: Family

These questions make for enriching dinner table conversation, but they can be equally illuminating if you simply ask them of yourself. I stumbled onto the idea of asking big questions because I needed them myself. They drive our growth, and … Continue reading

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Paid Leave

 How much paid leave do members of congress give their own staffs? There’s no across-the-board policy in Congress for paid leave- how much is up to each member- so Marie Claire asked all 100 senators what they provide. Thirty-one replied:27 … Continue reading

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