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Since the fall and winter seasons are quickly approaching, it’s time to start thinking about how you’re going to straighten your hair without compromising the health of your natural curls. Read on to learn more about how you can get your hair ready for hair straightening season (Hint: these tips go beyond using a heat protectant!) Hair Straightening Season: 4 Tips for Natural Haired Girls Hair Straightening Season: 4 Tips for Natural Haired Girls...

** To learn how to bring this look to life, keep reading to find our step-by-step guide on how to use a curling iron on tresses of any length: 1. Be conscious of curling iron sizes. Not all curling irons are created equal. That said, depending on the type of curls you’re trying to achieve, you need to be cognizant of the different sizes and how they relate to your finished look....

At the University of Miami, my research team and I study the impact of mindfulness training on high-demand groups like soldiers, first responders, and elite athletes. We research questions about their psychological and cognitive resilience, as well as their ability to perform at their best when circumstances are extraordinarily stressful. The bad news is that over high-stress intervals, their mood sours, cognition fails, and performance suffers as they go on autopilot....

The challenge is that we live in an increasingly distracting world, and need a method to make our attention, the touchstone of consciousness, more readily available to us. The challenge is that the speed of the world and the nature of our technology makes it difficult to make best use of this precious resource, which is a core component of mindfulness. John Teasdale captured the centrality of this point as follows: “Mindfulness is a habit, it’s something the more one does, the more likely one is to be in that mode with less and less effort… it’s a skill that can be learned....

OUTSIDE OF CARD INSIDE OF CARD Isn’t it the perfect fall love note?! Then I just stuck the card into a cute Pumpkin Basket along with lots of fun fall goodies. I decided to pick items that we could use together on some fun, fall dates. And of course, I had to include a Fall Bucket List that I had filled out with some of those date ideas. Here are some of the items I put inside:...