A person's past can direct what they think, what they feel, how they behave, and how they interact. The influence of one's past self can often be unhealthy for one's present self. Empathy, embracing humanity, forgiveness, and acceptance can help people make peace with their past selves. Taking ownership, making...

8 Steps to Making Peace With Your Past Self

Proximity and frequency promote natural connections. Adult friendships are created by design, not default. Improve connections with a strengths-based approach to interactions. For children, meaningful connections develop naturally over time due to frequency of contact and proximity to each other. The further away adolescents move from each other, the greater the chance of the friendship evaporating. A research study on adolescent friendships found, “the log-odds of friendship existence and friendship dynamics decrease smoothly with the logarithm of distance.” This phenomenon is not limited to children and teens. Unless you still have the same friends with whom you grew up, it can feel difficult and frustrating as an adult to build and sustain friendships.

5 Ways to Create Meaningful Connections

Intuitive judgments jeopardize friendships, leading to misunderstandings and conflicts. Gut feelings in hiring perpetuate biases, hindering fair practices and damaging workplaces. Trusting initial gut feelings can lead to mismatches and high divorce rates, challenging compatibility. Mitigating cognitive biases improves personal and professional decision-making outcomes. We are often advised to go...

The Perils of Trusting Our Gut in Relationships

Mindfulness offers three keys that can help people unlock a life well lived. Mindfulness is about the mind being and becoming a best friend. Wherever someone is, whatever they’re doing, their values point them in the right direction, like a compass. Hiking in the Lake District of England, I...

Three Keys to Mindfulness: Awareness, Attitude, and Values

Non-toxic positivity involves awareness of the negative situation and seeking out ways to notice positives. Finding ways to orient to a positive perspective can be utilized in both longer- and shorter-term situations. Metaphors such as salty water and gem mining address methods of diluting difficulties and looking for sparkle. Difficulties...

Non-Toxic Positivity

Blanco, TX

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Brigid Pfeifer

There were a number of celebrities who passed away within the past week, including two notable actresses: Shelley Duvall and Shannen Doherty. Shelley Duvall passed away on Thursday July 11th at her home in Blanco, Texas. The cause of death was complications from diabetes and news of her death was confirmed by her partner Dan Gilroy.

Two Beloved Hollywood Actresses Have Passed Away This Week

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Conflicts are inevitable in life as we have different opinions. Some zodiac signs are good at arguing while others strive to create harmony and avoid arguments. Yet, conflict resolution is a crucial skill at home and work. It helps people live peacefully and in unity.

5 Zodiac Signs Who Are Most Likely to Win Arguments

In this study, 49.5 percent of participants had taken a benzodiazepine at some point over the past 15 years. After a follow-up interval averaging 11.2 years, 13.3 percent had developed dementia. The researchers conclude, “Overall use of benzodiazepines is not associated with increased dementia risk.”. They also find, separately,...

Long-Term Use of Benzodiazepines and Dementia Risk

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Cheryl E Preston

Yesterday was the third time this year that an ad stating Chelsea Clinton lives in a beautiful Virginia home popped up on my laptop. My computer did not warn me this was a dangerous site, so this time, I clicked on the link.

Chelsea Clinton is rumored to be living in Virginia but probably still in NYC

The love for animals generally brings with it a strong sense of compassion, companionship, and a need to care for all things natural. In your birth chart, caring for animals falls with your moon sign in the 6th house, ruled by Venus and Mercury.

3 Zodiac Signs That Most Love Animals

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Northern Kentucky Tribune

Kentucky’s Community Actions Partnerships have announced the starts date for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Summer Subsidy, aimed at helping Kentucky households offset summer cooling costs.

LIHEAP Summer Subsidy program to help with summer cooling costs to begin enrollment July 16

Vulnerable and honest exchanges lead to understanding each other's perspectives and healing emotional wounds. Encouraging a legacy of understanding and empathy will permeate all family dynamics. Healing wounds helps bring an individual a sense of peace as well as improved relationships. The following are examples from my parent coaching practice....

3 Compelling Reasons to Make Amends With Your Adult Child

Both genders are still subject to the pull of their parents’ or grandparents’ generation’s traumas. German companies are secretly in a state of war or in a hierarchical state of rigidity. German women in new times want equality, but we still feel a long way from it.

Overcoming Transgenerational Transmission

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Dianna Carney

Chloe, a 9 to 10-week-old puppy, is the last of her litter and is eagerly looking for a forever home. Sandy Paws Rescue Inc., a dedicated foster-based rescue in Massachusetts, recently shared Chloe's story and her endearing qualities.

Meet Chloe: The 10-Week-Old Puppy Who Is The Last Of Her Litter Looking For Love

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David Heitz

A dangerous drug that is being mixed into fentanyl is causing those who inject it to develop a rash of sores that resembles a case of flesh-eating bacteria. People experiencing homelessness around Denver can sometimes be seen with these bloody, weeping wounds. I recently mentioned this phenomenon to a fentanyl user who told me about the xylazine connection.

Denver homeless people suffer sores as xylazine enters fentanyl supply

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“[I]nvoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God,” the Constitution of the Confederate States of America composed by southern slaveholders in 1861 sought to “establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.” The authors of Project 2025, the latest playbook for restructuring the federal government in order to accomplish the policy goals of Christian Nationalists, similarly declare their manifesto will “decide America’s future” by securing their “God-given individual rights to live freely” and exercise dominion over others.

Legislating Inequality: The Christian Confederate Roots of Project 2025

I don’t know about you but summer is definitely my favorite season and I am definitely a sun worshipper. Living in the Pacific Northwest, we do not see enough of it so when it is here, that is where you will find me. Everything I do I do outside when the sun is out and the weather is warm. I wonder who else feels this way. I wonder what Zodiac Signs love the Sunshine. Want to find out? Let’s do a little research.

3 Zodiac Signs Who Love Sunshine

Emily Standley Allard

We often run across people in our lives who either have a natural healing and calming energy to them and those who seem bent on ruining everything you set out to do whether they mean to or not. Astrology offers a complex and nuanced understanding of personality traits associated with each zodiac sign, attributing both positive and negative aspects to individuals' characters. Among these characteristics, some signs are often hailed for their healing abilities, bringing comfort, peace, and rejuvenation to those around them. Conversely, other signs may possess more destructive tendencies, challenging relationships and personal growth. This article explores the zodiac signs that are traditionally considered the most healing and the most destructive, offering insights into the dual nature of certain astrological influences.

The 6 Zodiac Signs That Can Either Heal or Destroy You

Sandy Paws Rescue Inc., a foster-based rescue in Massachusetts, has recently introduced Tanker, a 5 1/2-month-old lab mix who is searching for his forever home, and he might just be the perfect addition to your family.

Meet The Sweet Puppy Who Loves To Snuggle Now Looking For Love

Conservatives have done the United States a huge favor by explaining in detail what they’ll try to do if Donald Trump is reelected. Project 2025 , a “presidential transition project” of the Heritage Foundation, helpfully lays out how a group of former Trump officials would like to transform the country into a right-wing dystopia where the rich thrive and the rest of us die aspiring to be rich.

Project 2025’s Plan to Gut Medicare and Medicaid

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Hope or Happiness?

A happy life is a life that is full of hope. When there is no hope, happiness is not possible. Fundamentally, hope rather than happiness is...

Hope or Happiness?

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