Demi Lovato: Taking A Stand Against Bullying!

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Demi Lovato is a teen celebrity, but she hasn’t always had a charmed life. She admits she stopped going to middle school because of the bullying she endured. “It hurt so bad, I actually left school,” she says. And while she considers herself lucky, because her family was able to make sure she had home [...]

Why I Devoted My Life to Working With Eating and Weight Issues

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“To be nobody but yourself—in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else—means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”~E.E. Cummings “While learning body hatred from many different sources, we absorb and adapt to the rules of what is acceptable. [...]

Get Fit – Compound Exercises

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Fitness expert Allison Kaplan is demonstrating compound exercises during this edition of Get Fit.

Rick’s Home Cooking! Great Food For Busy People!

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I’m still doing the Farmer’s Market Menus but there are a couple new regular menu items also…check ‘em out! I’m unavailable for orders for Monday this week but plenty of “Great Food” for the rest of the week. Take note: I will be away beginning Friday, September 3rd thru Tuesday September 7th. That limits Labor [...]

Reinventing Intimacy

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Is it possible to have great sex at midlife and beyond? Absolutely. But it’s not necessary to have the unbridled drive or wildness of your younger years to experience sexual fulfillment at this stage of life. It’s the “being with” more so than “doing to” that sustains us over time, the way we connect in [...]

A Disobedient Girl: A Novel – A Wonderful Read For All Women

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In one of the most impressive debuts of the year, Ru Freeman delivers an epic, searing novel about betrayal and salvation, the strength of the human spirit, and the boundlessness and limits of love. Set against the volatile events of the last forty years of Sri Lankan history, A Disobedient Girl traces the lives of [...]

Life’s Greatest Gift – Make The Right Choices!

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What is life’s greatest gift? It is free will or choice. Choice is the ability to select one course of action from a set of alternatives to achieve a goal. What is so great about choice? It transforms us from dumb animals into artists. Each of us becomes another Michelangelo, for choice is nothing other [...]

Domestic Violence – Dissecting “Love The Way You Lie” Eminem And Rhianna

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The following article is written by guest blogger, Cara Lynch for “Haven” As many of you reading this may already know, Eminem has a new song out now entitled, “Love the Way You Lie” featuring Rihanna. For the sake of those not familiar with the song, here is a basic summary: The narrator of the [...]

Making A Difference At Any Age; An AmericanTowns Hero – Lucile Blackburn Delivers Love

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Every day, Meals On Wheels delivers more than one million meals to seniors in America, but it isn’t always the meals that make the difference. As Lucile Blackburn will tell you, many of the elderly people who receive the meals are as hungry for the company and conversation as for the meal itself. At 97 [...]

“Love Your Body, Rock The World.”

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Former Miss America Kirsten Haglund Helps Women Get Treatment for Eating Disorders “Love Your Body, Rock The World.” Those words grace the screen at Kirsten Haglund’s website, the entry point for many seeking help in treating their eating disorders under the guidance of the former Miss Michigan and 2008 Miss America. They are a mantra [...]