How to Study A Subject You Hate
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Pro-Anorexia, Bulimia Communities Thriving Online
Photos of emaciated women proudly displaying their protruding hips and ribs, as well as thinspirational quotes "fat-shaming" those who dare to eat, continue to thrive on social media, despite the best attempts by sites like Instagram to temper the reach of the pro-eating disorder community. Some girls gain thousands of followers posting pictures of "thigh gaps" [...]
7 Ways to Change Your Attitude When You Can’t Change Anything Else
Change your perception, belief or opinion about your circumstances. Doing so will help you change your attitude and ultimately allow you to grow beyond the struggles you can’t control. Sometimes changing your circumstances isn’t possible – or simply not possible soon enough. You can’t get to a new job in an instant. You can’t make [...]
Toxic Exposure Is Causing A Pandemic of Brain Disorders in Kids
Some chemicals—lead, mercury and organophosphate pesticides, for example—have long been recognized as toxic substances that can have lasting effects on children’s neurological health. But scientists are also now discovering that chemical compounds common in outdoor air—including components of vehicle exhaust and fine particulate matter—as well as in indoor air and consumer products can also adversely [...]
Defensive Architecture: Keeping Poverty Unseen and Deflecting Our Guilt
Defensive architecture is revealing on a number of levels, because it is not the product of accident or thoughtlessness, but a thought process. It is a sort of unkindness that is considered, designed, approved, funded and made real with the explicit motive to exclude and harass. It reveals how corporate hygiene has overridden human considerations, [...]
Counter the Psychology of Pessimism
It’s the tendency to put more attention, value and weight on negative comments and experience than on the positive. It’s human. We seem to be hardwired to do it. Some theorists suggest that our survival depended on it when we were living in primitive times. People who didn’t stay alert for saber-toothed tigers probably didn’t [...]
iMatter: Rosie Batty’s App to Help Young Women Avoid and Leave Unhealthy Relationships
Source: Lucia Osborne-Crowley via Women's Agenda Australian of the Year and anti-domestic violence campaigner Rosie Batty has launched a phone app aimed at teaching young women how to recognise signs of unhealthy and abusive relationships. Batty has been campaigning tirelessly against domestic and family violence since her son Luke was murdered by his father on [...]
How to Embrace Your Body
Image! Image! Image! Doesn’t it seem that these days it’s how you look that matters more than who you are? Sadly, it is true, and the explosion of the fitness industry and the way it is portrayed within the various media outlets plays an influential, and sometimes destructive role in the lives of thousands, if [...]
Neglect in Childhood Leaves Marks on Brain
Children deprived of loving care have reduced white matter in crucial parts of the brain compared to those raised in a better environment. The observations are not surprising in light of the well-known behavioral effects of neglect, but what this study has done is identify and measure the areas of the brain most affected. The [...]
3 Critical Ways to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence
Shutterstock With the discovery of Emotional Intelligence (EI), we now know that your professional success is as much predicated upon your emotional intelligence (and some would even argue more so) than your IQ. Your emotional intelligence is at the core of many, if not all critical "soft skills" that influence most of your [...]