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Daily Self Portrait: Fashion is More than What You Wear

…told a generation of women, it’s all right to take care of you. First Lady Michelle Obama has similarly made it cool to pay attention to what we wear. By shopping off the rack at stores like J. Crew, Gap and Target, she has shown us that clothes need not be bought from high-priced designers to make a statement. Clothing and style are more about a reflection of one’s spirit than cost. Our fashion choices are a canvas on which we paint a daily self-…

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How Over-Parenting Hurts Your Children… and You

…ut how they reflect on you. In a recent interview for Prevention Magazine, Michelle Obama said: I think my mother taught me what not to do. She put us first, always, sometimes to the detriment of herself. She encouraged me not to do that. She’d say being a good mother isn’t all about sacrificing; it’s really investing and putting yourself higher on your priority list. You can be a good mom and still work out, get your rest, have a career–or not. S…

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Five Ways to Bring Your Vacation Romance Home

…the 90’s film The Story of Us, a married couple played by Bruce Willis and Michelle Pfeiffer return from a romantic vacation in Italy and lay in bed trying to prioritize whether to complete a letter or to have sex. In a moment of awkward frustration, the husband blurts out, ”I just don’t want us to get to the point where we can’t make love unless there’s a concierge downstairs.” There’s a reason the term “vacation sex” was coined. On vacation we t…

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The Beginning of the End of Mass Imprisonment and the Misuse of Prisons as Our De Facto Mental Health Care System

…he many prominent social scientists, such as Loic Wacquant of Berkeley and Michelle Alexander of Ohio State (author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Imprisonment), that the main political function and purpose, and the only obvious reason, for the introduction of mass incarceration since the mid-1970s has to been to re-institute white supremacy, in a white (and Republican-supported) backlash against the success of the civil rights movement of the 1950s an…

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What’s Behind Emotional Overeating?

Last month, Michelle Obama made a special guest appearance on the long-running hit TV show, The Biggest Loser. I’d heard about the show’s premise: contestants who struggle with obesity and often face serious health risks relocate to a fitness ranch, where together they learn about nutrition, diet, and exercise, while competing to lose weight. But I had never watched it until I saw the episode featuring the First Lady. The contestants were invited…

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Why the Women’s March Felt SO Good: A Neurochemical Perspective

…down the heart, decreases blood pressure and reduces stress. According to Michelle Trudeau, “A friendly touch also increases release of the oxytocin.” So all that close contact with fellow marchers, along with any handshakes, hugs or high fives would have given your brain a nice boost of oxytocin. Walking Outside Walking outdoors is statistically correlated with higher levels of oxytocin. The combination of light exercise and sunshine does our br…

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