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If you’re looking for some tips for juggling everything, you’ve come to the right place! We will discuss how to take care of yourself, your kids, and your marriage, all while being a happily working mom. Taking Care of Yourself Taking Care of Yourself Don’t worry, I promise not to use the words “treat yourself” anywhere in this section. (Except for right there… whoops.) Raise your hand if you’ve ever been in the car, taken all your kids to a gas station bathroom, and then been back out on the road before you realized you needed to use the bathroom too?...

Tanya Davis is good with solitude. She wrote a poem called How To Be Alone, full of tips on the many ways you can come to enjoy being by yourself. How To Be Alone—shared in both a YouTube video and an illustrated book by filmmaker and animator Andrea Dorfman—has received more than eight million online views. As a yoga practitioner and meditator, Davis has found a way to deal with feelings of loneliness....

When we practice tuning into these qualities, we give ourselves an advantage in moments of great distress, for these are the qualities of mind that will see us safely through difficulty, and they are also the ones that can disappear just when they are needed most. Today we’re focussing on one of these qualities: befriending. What Does It Mean to “Befriend”? What Does It Mean to “Befriend”? The shift from aversion to befriending is the most radical shift any student of mindfulness can make....

We all need to become more active and muscular in setting boundaries and priorities about how we work and live. This is becoming increasingly more important as old boundaries dissolve (think 9-5 workday, leisure-time on the weekend, vacations that allow undisturbed away time), and work permeates every nook and cranny of life. It’s easy to default to allowing the external conditions dictate our daily schedules. But a few simple strategies can help us craft our time and exercise previously unknown aspects of personal power....

We all know that growing hair out has the potential to get painfully awkward, but it can be done! Luckily, this is where you guys have the edge in this department. It won’t take as long for your strands to even out into a brand new look altogether. In the meantime, all it takes are some clever styling hacks and a couple of great, transitional styles to keep you fresh, clean and on point....