Next time you realize you're being mean to yourself, stop and ask: "Would I talk to a friend this way?" Probably not. That's one way to slow down the cycle of negative self-talk.
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🙋🏾♀️ Raise your hand if you obsess over the one bad review in a sea of five stars. You're not alone. shares 5 strategies to squash your inner gremlins and be a little bit nicer to yourself.
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Facebook has banned seven firms it says used its platforms to spy on some 50,000 unsuspecting targets, including human rights activists, government critics, celebrities, journalists and ordinary people in more than 100 countries.
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Claudette Colvin was 15 when she was arrested for refusing to move to the back of a segregated Alabama bus in 1955 — months before Rosa Parks garnered international attention for doing the same.
Now, a judge has approved a request to clear her record.
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95 percent of child care owners and workers are women, and 40 percent of them are women of color. Despite the high cost of care, the average child care worker earns about $24,000 per year — less than many janitors and baristas.
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Sikhulile Moyo, the scientist in Botswana who identified omicron, was sadden by the quick travel bans put on South Africa after the discovery of omicron.
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Cynthia Nixon and Karen Pittman talk with about fashion and race in the HBO's Sex and the City reboot.
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Afghanistan's Taliban rulers believe that women "must have the right to education and to work," the spokesman for the Taliban's political office in Doha tells NPR. "Our endeavors are underway now to solve this problem," Muhammad Naeem Wardak says.
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Six years and five movies into the Spider-verse, Tom Holland's Spidey has been through a lot, and his tear-streaked face is an emotional special effect easily as powerful as the film's digital ones. What prompts the tears? That I can't talk about. npr.org/2021/12/16/106
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President Biden awarded three Medals of Honor to soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, two of which were awarded posthumously, including Sergeant 1st Class Alwyn C. Cashe the first Black recipient since the Vietnam War.
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Peloton has pulled its new ad featuring "Sex and the City" star Chris Noth following allegations of sexual assault against the actor in an article published by The Hollywood Reporter on Thursday.
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Something Is Killing the Children is eloquent proof that James Tynion will never be comfortable squeezing himself into the boxes that define today's comics industry.
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The Department of Justice has broken off negotiations to pay monetary damages to families who were forcibly separated at the border during the Trump administration.
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The Philippine Coast Guard said a month-old baby was rescued amid severe flooding in Cagayan de Oro on Thursday, Dec. 16, as Typhoon Rai, known locally as “Odette”, lashed the country.
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A federal judge today rejected a bankruptcy settlement for that granted immunity from #opioidcrisis lawsuits to members of the Sackler family. The shock ruling upends a $4+billion deal. I join and to talk about ruling. #bankruptcy
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Republicans are in position to win back control of the House of Representatives in 2022.
But in recent weeks some in the right wing of the party have openly attacked their GOP colleagues, and in some cases even threatened to defeat them in primaries.
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Months after a bout with COVID-19, many people are still struggling with memory problems, mental fog and mood changes. One reason is that the disease can cause long-term harm to the brain.
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