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How Discrimination in the Workplace Impacts Black Women’s Health & Well-Being

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After lodging a sexual harassment complaint against a coworker at her job in 2009, Cynthia Watson says she was shunned in the office. The experience took a toll on her mental health. A trauma-like effect on Black women’s health For more than 15 years, Sierra Carter, Ph.D., I was like an outsider in my department.”

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9 Types of Journaling and How They Can Benefit Mental and Physical Health

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Boosting mental and physical health The impact of journaling goes beyond Leid’s personal experiences; it’s been highly documented as a tool for boosting mental and physical health. Journaling can also have physical health benefits. This article originally appeared in the May/June 2023 issue of SUCCESS magazine.

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This 3-Question Self-Assessment Can Help You Reprioritize Your Life

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Virtually everyone would include personal development and health, career and achievements, and relationships and family, though each of us may define these three things slightly differently. We have all seen the shallowness of wealth without health and family. This article was published in August 2009 and has been updated.

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Impact Investor Evelyn Castle Finds Opportunity in Equity-Driven Ventures

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Not to Evelyn Castle, who spent a decade working in Africa’s health sector—namely Nigeria—before shifting her focus to impact investing. “I There is a role for aid in health emergencies and things like that,” Castle says. The Economics of Public Health. In the context of global aid, profit feels like a dirty word. It’s not. “We

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Beyond the Music: DJ Steve Aoki Taps Into Tech and Brain Advocacy Through the Aoki Foundation

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A cold plunge is the act of submerging your body in cold water; it’s said to have certain benefits for both mental and physical health, and Aoki was using his platform to turn it into a trend. research faculty and integrative clinical psychologist at University of California San Francisco’s Osher Center for Integrative Health.

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During a Recession, Entrepreneurs Are in the Driver’s Seat

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Waiting for the nation’s financial health to improve before you focus on your financial health is folly. You are the one with the power to change your financial health—and now is the time to change it. This article was published in June 2009 and has been updated. As Robbins says, “Your mindset controls everything.”

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If You Were Dying… Would Gratitude Be Your First Thought?

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In 2009, a month after being told that her stage four pancreatic cancer had metastasized to the liver, limiting her lifespan to just weeks or even mere days, Joan Lewis felt well enough to cross off bucket-list items. 1, 2011, article in The Citizens’ Voice in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. “I Her luck eventually ran out.

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