MASK The Magazine

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Your nine-year-old is teased at school for being the new kid in class and he tells you he wants to run away. Your six-year-old feels humiliated at soccer practice because she can’t kick the ball as well as the other girls (never mind they had a year

Kiplinger

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“Office politics,” says Boston-based Karen Dillon, “is impossible to avoid. But it is manageable if you know what not to do. As the former editor of the Harvard Business Review magazine and author of the HBR Guide to Office Politics, Dillon provides

Entrepreneur

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There are 10 or so moments in my career that make me wince when I think of them, and all but one involve a flash of anger. (The other one: an autocorrect in an email to my boss that turned an innocuous thought into “I lift you.”) There isn’t one mome

Entrepreneur

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"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing," Ralph Waldo Emerson once mused. It's a solid observation about handling interactions with difficult people. Mark Goulston, a Los Angeles-based business psychiatrist and consultant an

Your Family

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You get home after a long day at work, exhausted from driving through two hours of traffic and shopping for what you’ll need to cook dinner. On your way to the front door, lugging heavy parcels, your foot lands in a pile of poo, courtesy of the famil

The Atlantic

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My 26-year-old son has been through a lot. Is it possible to support him emotionally and financially while nudging him toward independence?

NPR

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The Australian songwriter's new album charts an internal landscape that holds anger and compassion in equally stunning measure.

TIME

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You began your new book, The Monarchy of Fear, when the 2016 election left you feeling that fear was “suffusing” society. Was the fear there all along? Fear is ubiquitous in human life. But it’s heightened when there’s a threat. In this situation it’

The Guardian

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Language is a kind of virus, and history has shown many times that this virus can be lethal

The Atlantic

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Editor’s Note: Every Wednesday, Lori Gottlieb answers questions from readers about their problems, big and small. Have a question? Email her at dear.therapist@theatlantic.com. Dear Therapist, My younger sister and I have always had a volatile relati

NPR

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While many people believe that how we feel and express anger is hard-wired, some scientists suggest our experience and culture help shape it. One way to get a handle on it may be to personalize it.

NPR

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The anthology demonstrates that American women are just now at the starting line of exploring and understanding their anger; it's more about how they live with anger than about what makes them angry.

Guernica Magazine

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On the privilege of disappearing. The post White Girls at the Table appeared first on Guernica.

MEGA

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At my father’s hospital bed in the early hours of the morning, I stared at a man I hardly knew. He was staring at the wall that lit up with headlights from the street below. He wasn’t sleeping anymore—he was afraid to die in his sleep—and so I decide

Tribune Content Agency Opinions

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There was a time in America, unknown or not experienced by people under the age of 50, when politics was a contact sport played with mostly accepted rules and the equivalent of “sportsmanship.” Losers would graciously concede and wish the victor well

Psychologies

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The person opposite me on the train is watching a film on his laptop. It’s a familiar scenario. His headphones don’t seem to work, I can hear every gunshot, shout and scream and I can’t concentrate on the notes I am reading. I feel increasingly put o

Literary Hub

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Reading Women is a weekly podcast where women discuss books by or about women. Co-hosted by Kendra Winchester and Autumn Privett, Reading Women releases new episodes every Wednesday—you can find them here at Lit Hub or anyone else you get your podcas

You South Africa

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You seem to have the upper hand in a relationship matter that threatens to disturb the peace. Have sympathy for your partner, who seems to have a lot on their plate right now. Once you can identify that they’re in need of a sparring partner, you may

New Idea

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Stopping yourself from lashing out is different to keeping anger bottled up, which can be equally unhelpful. “What some women do with anger is swallow it and wait,” Dr Deeks says. “Because they don’t necessarily get it out straightaway, they might

Woman's Own

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‘The quickest way to reduce tension and stress when you’re feeling angry is to focus on your breathing,’ explains Sandeep Agarwalla, head of yoga at Ananda in the Himalayas. ‘A simple calming technique is the humming bee breath.’ Sitting comfortably,

DIVA

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I have never been comfortable setting a place at the table for my anger. I always invited passion and excitement in and tolerated anxiety at the time, believing it was a by-product of my two favourite guests. But where was contentment, calm and joy?

Literary Hub

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I am done waiting. My father is long dead. He will never say the words to me. He will not make the apology. So it must be imagined. For it is in our imagination that we can dream across boundaries, deepen the narrative, and design alternative outcome

Mornings with Jesus

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ONE OF MY FAVORITE TV shows is The Honeymooners. The iconic lead character, Ralph Kramden, would say, “I’ve got a big mouth!” whenever he talked too much and got into trouble. It was a hilarious form of self-correcting on the show. But I can relate i

WellBeing

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When you are thrown a curve ball or four you have the choice to either curl up on the couch, allowing anger to take over, or to learn how to heal from the inside and survive. For me, it was to survive and thrive. It all started with the devastating n

Your Pregnancy

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When mothers get together, the conversation inevitably turns towards their children – “he rolled over for the first time; she ate a whole bowl of soup; I was up all night; my toddler had a screaming fit at the supermarket, and I was so embarrassed!”

frankie Magazine

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(SOMETIMES) LADIES MAKE BANK It’s a totally different world for female musicians today. When we were releasing “You Oughta Know” in 1995, we sent it to radio stations and the initial response from all the program directors was, “Oh, we’re already pla

Sunday Tribune

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Tensions flare as power struggles promote either fight or flight. Your fiery Aries anger can be explosive, but suppressing emotions isn’t healthy either. If you have a problem, aim for a positive outcome rather than just venting. Either clear the air

Your Pregnancy

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Michael’s parents return home from a meeting with the teacher where she expresses her concerns about his lying. His parents sit down to talk to him about this inappropriate behaviour. ”Where did you learn this, Michael?” his father wants to know. Jus

Your Pregnancy

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Do daily power struggles wear you into the ground? Do you surrender because your energy is utterly depleted, or do you turn into a raging bull, saying and doing things you wish you had never done? Wouldn’t it be amazing if there was a magic formula t

Mindful

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I love the opening line of our feature about women leaders in mindfulness: “This is why we practice.” It feels like a manifesto, capturing how to live now. Because as the world convulses with turmoil, my mind convulses, too. My thoughts fly like a st