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Setting healthy personal boundaries in relationships is one thing – and coping with people’s responses to your boundaries is another! Here are five ways to protect yourself when you’re criticized by friends, family, and coworkers who don’t respect your boundaries. These tips are based on inspiration from Marie Osmond (who, as a child superstar and busy mother [...] These six tips for living with diabetes, a chronic illness that affects almost every part of a woman’s body, are inspired by Mary Tyler Moore’s experience. She was diagnosed with diabetes thirty years ago, and says that learning to live with this disease is a process – not a one-time event. “When I speak to those who are [...] Many women secretly wish they were more beautiful – and the good news is that there are easy, natural ways to improve beauty! These natural beauty secrets are from psychologists, life coaches, and doctors…and they’re accompanied by beauty quotations from the gorgeous, smart Sophia Loren. For instance: “Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your [...] If your friend has breast cancer (like one of my closest friends), here are five ways to help, support, and love her through this dreadful illness. When my friend was diagnosed, I started exploring Suzanne Somers’ experience with breast cancer, as well as her dedication to finding ways to cure and prevent cancer in the first place. Somers [...] A reader asked about responding to bossy co-workers on my Coping With Negative Coworkers Who Drain Your Energy article. Here are a few ideas on handling difficult people at work, with inspiration from Sophia Loren. “Getting ahead in a difficult profession [or with difficult co-workers] requires avid faith in yourself,” said Loren. “That is why some people [...] The decision to divorce can be agonizing for women; I hope these signs it’s time to leave your husband will make it easier to decide if you should stay married or run for the hills! These signs are from Contemplating Divorce — an amazing resource for unhappy marriages. First, two quotations about divorce from strong women in history: [...] The life lesson: you have to stop doing too much and regularly recharge your batteries, or you’ll burn out! The successful woman: Oprah Winfrey, who balances achievement with periods of rest…and knows the importance of figuring out her true intentions. “If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies,” says Oprah. “And if you run full speed [...] The life lesson: getting what you want out of life requires you to go beyond just wishing, hoping, and dreaming! The successful woman: Angelina Jolie (and I’m not talking about Brad Pitt here!). “Try to be completely who you are,” says Jolie. “Figure out what you love. And, go after it with everything you’ve got no [...] The life lesson: sure, you can make yourself sick with your thoughts…but can you cause your own breast cancer? The successful woman (I think!): Olivia Newton-John. “I read old interviews of myself before I went through [breast cancer], and I used to talk about being worried about getting old or getting sick,” says Olivia Newton-John in the September [...] The life lesson: sometimes your body doesn’t cooperate – or it even betrays you. The successful woman: Sarah Jessica Parker, who not only accepts her infertility…she talks about it. “It would have been odd to have made this choice if I was able to have had successful pregnancies since my son’s birth,” said Parker in an [...] The life lesson: to build self-confidence, stop acting the way you “should.” The successful woman: Queen Latifah, who is a perfect example of how to see Jane soar! “I don’t act the way society dictates that a woman ’should,’ writes Queen Latifah in Ladies First: Revelations of a Strong Woman. “I am not dainty. I do not [...] Are you criticized for the clothes you wear to work? Don’t let it get to you! Take Whoopi Goldberg’s, who is a genuine “woman who wasn’t well-behaved.” But remember — there may be a cost associated with wearing whatever you want to work… Did you hear Whoopi’s response on The View to the woman who criticized her clothes? Among [...] |
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