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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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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. Many, for example, would emphasize faith within their personal development, and others would make service and giving prominent among their achievements.

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What to Do When You Don’t Feel Like Doing Anything

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I’ll give you a good example—I don’t particularly like to exercise, but I do almost every day. As another example—perhaps you are a salesman who has been phoning clients for a week straight, day and night. This article was published in June 2009 and has been updated. Most of the time I am just feeling lazy.

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Master Your Memory with Ron White

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This article was published in May 2009 and has been updated. You want to create an action or crazy story so memorable with each file that your brain takes greater note of it than it would with a simple word or phrase. White says you must create an image from each point and attach them to a file in the order that you have memorized them.

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What Is Happiness and Why Is It Important?

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Anyone who has been in therapy at any point during the past century has likely heard that request, now a go-to punch line for an entire industry of mental health. But focusing on why people are miserable—and reliving that misery one 45-minute session at a time—in order to get happy became, well, depressing for many in the mental health field.

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Would You Risk Your Life to Save a Stranger?

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In releasing the results of his study in 2009, Aikins said that while no person is born without fear, his research found that a small percentage of people are biologically better equipped to deal with it. “I The larger the group, the less inclined people are to act.

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The Shoe That Grows - Small Business Innovation in Action

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It adjusts across five sizes and last five years – providing better protection and better health for children. The reason we are covering this product is it's a really interesting example of small business innovation.  The Shoe That Grows is an excellent example of these enablers in action.

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