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Why Trump’s Presidency is a Trauma Survivors Nightmare

Why Trump’s Presidency is a Trauma Survivors Nightmare

Life Advice and Skills

Why Trump’s Presidency is a Trauma Survivor’s Nightmare

If you have ever been a victim of abuse, gaslighting, or emotional trauma, then you might have been feeling triggered...

Life Advice and Skills

Life Advice and Skills
How to Use the Struggles of 2020 to Ensure a Successful 2021
Is it even possible to take all the sadness, confusion, and struggles we lived through since the start of 2020 and use them to ensure that...
Life Advice and Skills
Is the COVID-19 Social Holiday Guilt Getting to You Too?
COVID-19 has changed the way we do so many things as a society. It has affected the little things, like shaking hands when you meet someone...
Life Advice and Skills
3 Things to Recognize About Your Pandemic Bubble
The phrase ‘pandemic bubble’ shouldn’t be unfamiliar to any of us at this point. We have been hearing it for months now. However, what it means...
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18 Lessons I’ve Learned From 18 Years of Marriage
Weddings have taken a hit in 2020, and the views on marriage have been changing among Millenials. According to Philip Cohen, a sociology professor at the University...
Life Advice and Skills
Lessons From Our Everyday Heroes on Celebrating The Holidays This Year
How we celebrate the holidays and special events in our lives has been a changing landscape during 2020. In the spring and summer, weddings were the...
Life Advice and Skills
30 Life Lessons You’ll Want to Learn Before Turning 30
My husband turned 40 this year, and he has been reflecting on his life so far. I have a few years to go until I reach...
Life Advice and Skills
The Art of Losing: Your Behavior in Defeat Matters
Dealing…sounds less slimy than ‘wheeling and dealing.’ However excellent you might be at closing a deal, there will come a time when one gets away from...
Life Advice and Skills
Searching For Inner Peace Was an Essential Lesson I Learned in 2020
This year has taught us many things, and when I think about how it has changed my life and that of my family, it can feel...
Life Advice and Skills
If 2020 Triggered You at Every Turn, You Are Not Alone
Do you feel triggered by everything that has gone on during this year? There is no shortage of funny memes about 2020. You might have seen...
Life Advice and Skills
Don’t Limit Yourself to One Passion if You Want a Full Life
You have likely heard the advice, “Find what you are passionate about and do it for a living.” This is excellent advice. I have recently rekindled...
Life Advice and Skills
Why Your Bedroom Should be a Tranquil Space
Our bedrooms are often the space in our house that we seek when we want peace and quiet. We recharge our energy, process our days, and...
Life Advice and Skills
Where Do We Go From Here as Americans?
If you are like me, you have been glued to the presidential race and your social media feed. However this contentious race pans out, we all...
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Are You Suffering From Election Stress Disorder Too?
How many hours of election coverage have you watched since November 3rd? Be honest now. For me, I started the morning of Election Day by watching...
Life Advice and Skills
Taking Care of Your Needs is Not Selfish, It Is Necessary
Our society talks a lot about needing self-care, but sometimes the things touted as “self-care” are basic human needs, like showering. If you have ever advocated...
Life Advice and Skills
5 Signs You Are Developing Toxic Traits
You have likely heard someone referred to as “toxic” before, but what exactly does that mean? What are some toxic traits to look out for in...
Life Advice and Skills
Why You Should Fight For The Causes That Matter
Life is short, but as humans, we fill it with as many meaningful experiences as we can. If you asked most people, they would say they...
Life Advice and Skills
Can We Stay Sane During The Days Between Now and The Election?
No matter which side of the political spectrum you sit, I think there is one thing that we can all agree on: this election is making...
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How The Full Spectrum of Human Nature is in All of Us
I am a writer on Medium, and I recently submitted a piece to a publication. The editor responded to me directly and said that “there is a...
Life Advice and Skills
4 Ways to Restore the Peace Between Parent & Child
As a parent, one has plenty of opportunities to reflect on motivations and outcomes—both one’s own and those of the children we are raising. Introspection, the...
Life Advice and Skills
Learn How To Be A Good Friend To Those Who Mean Most To You
Friendships occur when two or more individuals develop a connection built from understanding, respecting, and caring about each other’s needs, ideas, concerns, desires, and feelings. Thus,...
Life Advice and Skills
5 Surprising Ways Trauma is Affecting You
If you have experienced trauma as a child, you might wonder how it affects your life today. Many of the things you think and feel are...
Life Advice and Skills
3 Ways to Support Someone With Severe Anxiety
As a diagnosis, anxiety can sometimes be hard to understand because we all feel anxious at times, which is a normal response to stress. For instance,...
Life Advice and Skills
Best Decision-Making Techniques for Life’s Tough Choices
Every single one of us has faced tough decisions before. We make a crazy number of choices daily, some with little conscious thought, like what to...
Life Advice and Skills
3 Ways to Find Meaning In Your Life
Do you ever wonder, “How do I find meaning in my life?” Or maybe you wake up every day and wonder what it means to have...
Life Advice and Skills
5 Things to Keep in Mind When Trying to Find Your Tribe
Have you ever heard the term, “Your vibe attracts your tribe,” and wondered who makes up your tribe? A tribe is so much more than just...
Life Advice and Skills
Can You Really Change Your Life in Less Than a Year?
How does someone with a Master’s of Science in Management and Leadership become a full-time writer? How do you leave a field you have spent nearly...
Life Advice and Skills
How to Stay Informed With Current Events Without Going Crazy
Struggling to stay informed with current events without diving headfirst into the abyss? Below you’ll find a few things you can do to find balance and...
Life Advice and Skills
How to Educate Our Children (and Ourselves) on White Privilege
How do you explain white privilege to your white children? First, you must understand what white privilege is. Then you have to talk to your children....
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Congratulations on Your First Hater
“Congratulations” is not the word I expected to hear when I reached out to tell people about my first real hater. A hater is someone negative...
Life Advice and Skills
5 Things You Can do to be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi is a black man and author of How to Be an Antiracist. In the book, Kendi offers an in-depth examination of his mind...
Life Advice and Skills
As a White Person, Here Are 3 Things We Can Do to Support Justice For Black People
New stories of injustice emerge amid the protesting and anger on an almost daily basis. I hear each with sadness, shame, and a desire to do...
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How to Fight Grief Induced Mental Exhaustion
The month of May comes every year, marking the almost halfway point of another trip around the sun. The closer May gets, the more mental exhaustion...
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How to Stay Connected When You Miss Your Family and Friends
Looking for ways to stay connected to your loved ones? Keep reading to learn of some great avenues to foster more meaningful connections with your loved...
Life Advice and Skills
3 Lessons About Life We Can Learn From Trolls: World Tour
The new Trolls movie received some mixed reviews around my house. Both of my children (a teenage girl and a pre-teen boy) enjoyed it. They laughed...
Life Advice and Skills
You Don’t Have to Talk to Toxic Members of Your Family
It is not an easy thing to acknowledge that you have a relationship with a toxic person. It is even harder when you realize that this...
Life Advice and Skills
7 Ways to Recognize When Someone is Gaslighting You
What exactly does gaslighting mean? How can you tell if someone is gaslighting you? If you have been asking yourself these questions, then chances are someone...
Life Advice and Skills
10 Life Aha Moments And Their Incredible Insights
I have been blessed with many aha moments in my life. I look at aha moments as gifts from God – that He loves me enough...
Life Advice and Skills
How to Recognize and Break Free From Trauma Bonds
You can do it, and your life will be infinitely better when you do. Trauma bonding refers to the attachment bond that is created through repeated...
Life Advice and Skills
10 Ways to Be Smarter With Your Money in 2020
The days are passing quickly, and before you know it, you’ll be saying, “Happy New Year!” As you begin a new year, you may select resolutions...
Life Advice and Skills
7 Empowering Reasons To Love Your Enemies
Though we encounter disagreement, fights, and enemies from time to time, we can rise above hate and choose love instead. Below you’ll find some compelling reasons...
Life Advice and Skills
How meditation can help us manage stress in our fast-paced lives
Looking for the benefits meditation has to offer? Discover how the skill can help us manage stress in our ever-changing, fast-paced lives. Creating everlasting change for...
Life Advice and Skills
Want To Figure Out How To Be Charming? 10 Practical Suggestions
The world will view you in a new light once you master these tips on how to be charming!
Life Advice and Skills
How To Set Financial Goals and Actually Reach Them
Financial goals are one of the most popular areas of personal pursuit for most working adults. Whether it’s a goal to buy that first car, take...
Life Advice and Skills
Who Was Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge and How Did He Change the World?
Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the life and work of Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge on his 225th birthday. Runge was a German analytical chemist who discovered caffeine. He...
Life Advice and Skills
How Many Self Help Books Should You Read a Year?
Thousands of self help books and articles are published every year, promising everything from a tip to the entire success formula. Some are redundant paraphrases, stitched...