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The Quiet Casualties of the Movement for Black Lives

By John Eligon — 2018

There is a quieter reality of activism: the mental and emotional hardship of the work, and the resulting stress and depression that sometimes make it difficult to even get out of bed. Self-care makes a difference.

Read on www.nytimes.com

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How to Ask for Help Without Feeling Needy | Kati Morton

From a licensed therapist, here are five tips to help you when you need to ask others for help—whether it be from friends, family, or a health professional—and you don’t want to feel needy while doing so.

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78 - A Science-Backed Strategy for Making an Apology Effective

Whether you said something out of anger and hurt your partner’s feelings or you completely forgot about a deadline for work, your next move is critical. So on today’s Friday Fix, I share the exact things you should say to increase the chances that your apology will be accepted.

The Verywell Mind Podcast With Amy Morin

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97 – Learn Ways to Have a Better Conversation with Best-Selling Author Celeste Headlee

Celeste Headlee is a journalist, speaker, and co-host of Retro Report, a weekly series on PBS. Some of the things she talks about in this episode are how to hold difficult conversations with people, how to become better at making conversation, and how to deliver bad news effectively.

The Verywell Mind Podcast With Amy Morin

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Coping with Cancer: DBT Skills to Manage Your Emotions—and Balance Uncertainty with Hope

This compassionate book presents dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), a proven psychological intervention that Marsha M. Linehan developed specifically for the impossible situations of life--and which she and Elizabeth Cohn Stuntz now apply to the unique challenges of cancer for the first time.

Elizabeth Cohn Stuntz, Marsha M. Linehan

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Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen: The Essential Conversations You Need to Have with Your Kids Before They Start High School

Trying to convince a middle schooler to listen to you can be exasperating. Indeed, it can feel like the best option is not to talk! But keeping kids safe—and prepared for all the times when you can't be the angel on their shoulder—is about having the right conversations at the right time.

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Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting

Based on the latest research on brain development and extensive clinical experience with parents, Dr. Laura Markham’s approach is as simple as it is effective. Her message: Fostering emotional connection with your child creates real and lasting change.

Dr. Laura Markham

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Healing Developmental Trauma: How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image, and the Capacity for Relationship

Written for those working to heal developmental trauma and seeking new tools for self-awareness and growth, this book focuses on conflicts surrounding the capacity for connection.

Laurence Heller, Aline LaPierre

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Vulnerability Politics: The Uses and Abuses of Precarity in Political Debate

Progressive thinkers have argued that placing the concept of vulnerability at the center of discussions about social justice would lead governments to more equitably distribute resources and create opportunities for precarious groups—especially women, children, people of color, queers, immigrants,...

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Rachel Naomi Remen on NBC News - Teaching Doctors to Listen

Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen created a course for first and second-year medical students called the Healer's Art. She teaches that the best practice of medicine is about connecting with your patient, requires more listening than doing, and is about more than a cure.

Rachel Naomi Remen

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Unf*ck Your Intimacy: Using Science for Better Relationships, Sex, and Dating

Explore your relationships and sexuality, with yourself and with others, with this new book by Dr. Faith, author of bestselling Unf*ck Your Brain.

Faith G. Harper

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