Author: Biljana Ognenova
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Support and Comfort Words for Someone Who is Grieving
If you’re not used to offering words of encouragement after the death of a family member, it can be difficult to maintain contact and show your concern. Finding the right words of comfort for the family can be particularly challenging, especially if you were closer to the person who has passed away than to the…
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“Permanent Record” Review: Ed Snowden’s Great Reveal of Anti-privacy
Edward Snowden’s compelling memoir, “Permanent Record,” is an eye-opening exploration of the dangers posed by extensive data collection and storage. Edward Snowden’s Revelations on Government Surveillance In “Permanent Record,” Snowden unveils the risks inherent in the combination of ubiquitous data collection and permanent storage. Governments, he warns, can use this powerful tool to selectively target…
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Childhood Trauma Healing: How to Heal Your Inner Child
In the spiritual realm, there is often this notion that healing your child is of utmost importance. But while you do need to pay attention to parenting your inner child, you’re now a grown-up; even though you do need to pay attention to your inner child’s needs, you have needs as an adult, too. It is…
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Simple Pranayama Breathing Exercise to Manage Your Anger
Yoga breathing exercises enable steady progress in addressing your angry energy and directing it towards growth.
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Understanding Your Dog’s Behavior Could Save You So Much Money
Regardless of what is the full truth we yet have to discover to understand dogs, they do have an almost mythical quality. That quality separates them from other animals regarding how they behave around and with people. How to Understand Dogs And Befriend Them If you want to completely understand dogs, a lifetime of reading…
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How to Stop Criticizing Others and Yourself
Sooner or later, you will have to expose yourself to criticism. You will have your paper graded, your clothes praised or ridiculed, your speech applauded or booed, your book top-listed or chopped to pieces by a critic’s verbal sword. That’s life. You cannot live in isolation.
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A Snoring Hummingbird Totally Deserving of Its Own Blog Post
A cute, sleeping, emerald-green, Peruvian hummingbird, accidentally caught in the deepest of its sleep, snoring like a steaming kettle or, as some of the YouTube comments have cleverly nailed it “a falling grenade”.
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Raising Dogs vs. Raising Kids: 5 Ways to Practice Consistency
I don’t want to be one of “those” people that claim having a dog is the same as having a child. But some aspects of keeping a dog do resemble having a two-year kid. Others are completely different.
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What “Scrubs” (TV Series) Taught Me about Happy Families
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
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How to Prioritize Your Life with Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
I once heard that the only people who love cycling are those who cannot afford to buy a car. If you want to know how to prioritize in life in general, and how to prioritize tasks and projects, you can find your answer about the value of your choices in the Maslow’s pyramid of needs.

