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The Key to a Well-Lived Life: Lighten Up!

By Elizabeth Gilbert — 2010

Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed shares the key to a well-lived life.

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The Legitimate Children of Rape

Writing in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Dr. Felicia H. Stewart and Dr. James Trussell have estimated that there are twenty-five thousand rape-related pregnancies each year in the United States.

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Medical Progress, Social Progress, and Legal Regression

Both anti-abortionists and disability activists have sometimes suggested that women should defer to “nature” and have whatever baby they conceive. The bioethicist William Ruddick calls this the “ ‘hospitality’ view of women.

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My Vagina Has Anxiety

I found out the hard way that stress-fuelled muscle tension isn’t just for your neck and shoulders.

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Why Has COVID-19 Been Especially Harmful for Working Women?

COVID-19 is hard on women because the U.S. economy is hard on women, and this virus excels at taking existing tensions and ratcheting them up.

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The Beauty in Mental Illness

Look more closely and you’ll see.

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Women Aren't Nags—We're Just Fed Up

Emotional labor is the unpaid job men still don't understand.

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Are You Failing at Failing? Author Neil Pasricha Says It’s Time to Change the Narrative

A key part of happiness is learning how to deal with failure—something the convenience of technology has made people forget

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Is Grief Mental Illness? With Psychiatric Changes, Maybe

Normal bereavement and major depression share many of the same symptoms. And because of those similarities, psychiatrists have historically carved out what is known as a "bereavement exclusion." Its purpose was to reduce the likelihood that normal grief would be diagnosed as clinical depression.

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The Five Types of Avoidance

It's normal for human beings to seek pleasure and avoid pain. Some of the ways in which we seek to avoid pain are adaptive or healthy.

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DSM-V: Interview With Social Worker Joanne Cacciatore, PhD, FT

I believe that social workers need to focus on that which we are trained to do: extend civic love and compassion to the client, staring where he or she is. We are not wed to the medical model; social work is ecological, psychosocial, and systems oriented.

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