Rest assured, there are tons of complementary options out there; the trick lies in finding the right cuts and styles that balance out your angles and put your best features forward. Read on to check out some of our favorite haircuts for long faces that you can easily rock this year. ** Edgy hairstyles are having a major moment right now. From choppy mullets to layered shags, our feeds have been flooded with edgy looks since spring....
Four Lessons on Anti-Racism from Brené Brown and Ibram X. Kendi Four Lessons on Anti-Racism from Brené Brown and Ibram X. Kendi 1. Our identity is changing from moment to moment Nobody, regardless of race, says Kendi, is simply racist or anti-racist in a static way. “What we say and do about race in each moment determines what, not who, we are.” It isn’t helpful to fall into essentialist categories around race, says Kendi, because we all have the ability to change our behavior as we gain awareness—and we have the ability to admit when we’ve made mistakes: “Essentially, to be anti-racist is to admit when we’re being racist....
Understanding how your partner receives love allows you to show them love in the most meaningful way. Every relationship can benefit from being more intentional with their love. Focusing on a specific love language that your partner most prefers will be a guide on how to do just that. Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. To learn more about them, click here. The five love languages are words of affirmation, quality time, physical touch, acts of service, and receiving gifts....
Appreciation is about deepening the connection you feel for what you are grateful for. One of my favorite examples is being grateful for having food to eat. If you’re grateful for the food, you can then be appreciative of what you’re eating, if you consciously pay attention and take the time to notice the flavors, odors, and textures of the food and how it feels to nourish yourself. You can be grateful for things or people in your life without really appreciating them, but it’s difficult to appreciate them and not be grateful....
If we are too self-absorbed and caught up in our own experience in any moment, we will be unable to shift our perspective in this way and won’t even think to try. When we are self-preoccupied, there is virtually no awareness of whole domains of reality we may be living, immersed in every day but which nevertheless are continually impinging on and influencing our lives. Our emotions, and particularly the intensely afflictive emotions that “sweep us away,” such as anger, fear, and sadness, can all too easily blind us to the full picture of what is actually happening with others and within ourselves....
