Fall Shopping 2009

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How to Shop This Season Without Losing Your Savings, Or Sense of Style We’re quickly approaching the autumn months and even though most of us are long out of school, fall still means one thing: back-to-school shopping! It’s a phenomenon no longer reserved for just those taking classes. Fall is the time year when we [...]

Fall Fashion 2009

Do’s & Don’ts Do invest in quality fabrics. If you’re going to be spending your money this season, put it towards materials that are going to last like leather, suede, wool and tweed. Don’t be afraid of color. Even thought fall traditionally means neutrals and muted colors (they’re still an ‘09 do) neons are also [...]

The Allure of the Handbag

What is is about handbags that drives women crazy?! Have you ever walked past a store, seen a fabulous bag in the window, and experienced such a visceral reaction of want that you had to stop, do a double take and stare in the window longingly until you just had to go in and look? [...]

Women’s Center of Southeastern Michigan

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The Women’s Center of Southeastern Michigan is a nonprofit women’s resource center based in Ann Arbor. We provide affordable counseling, financial, legal, and job-related services. Our interwoven services work together as a “safety net” to promote economic and emotional recovery. Although our efforts are primarily by and for women, we also welcome men and boys. [...]

The Healing Power of Flowers

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Can flowers help you heal? Based on a recent study from Kansas State University, the answer seems to be YES!!! Researchers followed 90 patients recovering from surgery and found that those with plants in their rooms had less anxiety and fatigue, their blood pressure was lowered and didn’t take as many painkillers as the patients [...]

The Stress Factor

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The Almost Working Girl’s Guide to Managing and Ignoring Everyday Stress Stress is tricky. There’s negative stress and positive stress. It’s bad to have too much stress, but good to have a little. It has the potential to induce heart attacks or strokes, but the ability to motivate and spark creativity as well. Stress is [...]

Spirituality Made Simple

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You are already spiritual. There is no getting there because you are already here. Like breathing, you cannot be alive without having first been developed out of miraculous consciousness, a.k.a. spirit. Furthermore, that which is definitive of your developed, individual person and that which is infinitive or omnipresent cannot exist without each other. Life is [...]

Perseverance

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Like a rock in a river, it unapologetically stands strong in its purpose against the currents. The rock doesn’t resist nor get immersed in the river’s push and pull, the water rolls around the rock and the rock stands strong. It doesn’t matter how hard the rapids’ antagonistic blasts of suffering punch the rock to [...]

Triceps: No more Flabby Arms for you!

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Can I have my arm flab surgically removed? How about a less radical approach. Bat wings, Hi Betty’s, Bar Mitzvah arms, chicken wings and grocery bags. Call them what you will, no woman likes them or wants them. These horrible names for the historical and dreaded arm flab problem can now be removed from your [...]

Mountain Pose or Tadasana

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Although often times Tadasana is viewed as a “simple” posture or not even a posture at all, it is the seat, the base, the foundation for all other standing poses.  Also known as mountain pose, Tadasana is the standard anatomical position bringing the entire body into postural alignment.  If you find the Tadasana within each [...]