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What I Learned the Year We (Nearly) Skipped Christmas

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My suitcase was packed, my traveling clothes all laid out. My mom tried to help by encouraging me to like stuff that other girls my age liked: clothes, boy bands, teen magazines. I bucked her attempts to put me in stylish clothes and instead opted for baggy T-shirts. Mortified, I tried to hide behind a clothing rack.

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Can Dopamine Dressing Make You Better At Your Job?

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The chemical plays a role in several key functions, like mood, learning and attention, and it’s also connected to reinforcement behaviors. A 2012 study published by the University of Hertfordshire Press links “how clothing and mood don’t just influence others, it reflects and influences the wearer’s mood, too.”

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Modern Homesteading and the Trend Towards Greater Independence

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The trend towards desiring greater levels independence - and the autonomy, control and flexibility that comes with it - takes many forms.    Another example is modern homesteading, which the Small Town Homesteading blog defines as : Homesteading is a lifestyle of the pursuit of self-sufficiency and sustainability.

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Rachel Ceruti Is Curbing Environmental Waste By Upcycling Clothes

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Growing up, Rachel Ceruti had an appreciation for the environment, but she didn’t consider herself an environmentalist nor had she started upcycling clothes. While she was there, she learned about how secondhand clothing is shipped to Africa and then ends up in landfills. “We What is upcycled clothing?

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For Mi Golondrina, Hispanic Heritage Is More Than a Month

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It is where her company’s namesake took form. Lynch, her parents and three brothers would connect with local people, indulge in authentic foods, learn histories and experience the cultures. Samano, who worked as a seamstress for a clothing business owned by Lynch’s mother and aunt, has known Lynch since birth.

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How 30 Days of Kindness Made Me a Better Person

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It’s a warm September day in New York, but he’s sitting under a mountain of ragged bits of clothing, towels and blankets. I set out to see whether I could learn to give without the promise of getting. Admittedly I experienced some form of generosity fatigue around the second week of my challenge. Tit for tat.

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The Importance Of Taking Part In Non-Tech Related Hobbies And Activities

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Kacey is a lifestyle blogger for “ The Drifter Collective. ” She finds excitement in the world around her and this is portrayed through her visually pleasing, culturally embracing and inspiring posts. Today most forms of entertainment involve turning on a screen and staring at it for hours at a time. Lower Your Stress Levels.