Eight relaxation techniques - deep breathing really works - I read somewhere that most of us tend to take too-shallow breaths, especially when we're stressed!
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The trend of women using photographs of their children instead of themselves as the main picture on their Facebook profiles - I don't get it either.
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Powerful. "Fashion was created by (for the most part) rich, white men who had very specific, rigid ideas of what women should look and act like. They have a vested interest in keeping us tightly bound up, corseted to our eyebrows and tottering on the highest of heels, even if it causes us discomfort and ill health. They have a vested interest in keeping us smooth, hairless, perfectly made-up and shiny, even if it wastes much of our time and money. They have a vested interest in keeping us slim and pretty and willing to do anything to make or keep ourselves that way. They have a vested interest in our self-hatred and our self-consciousness because it keeps us busy and our minds off of our 1 in 6 chance of being sexually assaulted, or our 1 in 3 chance of being cut open in childbirth in the U.S. (1 in 4 chance in the UK), or our 83 pence to every man's pound earned."
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From the page: "This pumpkin seed bread is soft, although it contains 67% whole-grain flour, because it also has a fair amount of butter âÂ" very nice for sandwiches and toast."
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Yet another reason celebrities should be spurned by polite society until they can learn to stop doing stupid shit at I Blame The Patriarchy - http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2009...
"Who, you might ask, would be barbarian enough to form a chastity belt of solidarity around fugitive child rapist Roman Polanski? A whole bunch of famous movie people, it turns out."
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