100 Percent Fed Up exclusive – On Sunday, MI GOP Secretary of State candidate Kristina Karamo attended a Memorial Day parade in St. Clair Shores, MI, with a group of volunteers and her two teenage daughters when she was reportedly verbally abused and threatened by Deadline Detroit reporter Charlie LeDuff. Last month, Kristina lost her…
Source: Shutterstock/Kraken Images May is over. We’ve been lambasted with Mental Health Awareness Month hashtags, green-heart emojis, ‘It’s okay not to be okay’ memes, and crisis text numbers. Zealous mental health advocates spread messages of hope and solidarity, assuring us that healing is within reach. That we’re not alone. That we can ‘self-care’ our way…
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This information is given to The Gateway Pundit by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) A massive crowd of locals in Abadan, southwest Iran, took to the streets on Wednesday night, May 25, in anti-regime protests triggered by the collapse of the city’s Metropol tower on Monday, May 23. Angry protesters were chanting…
Aesthetics are about experiencing things as beautiful. Aesthetic experiences include artworks, but also the experience of a breathtaking landscape, the autumn leaves in the park, listening to your favorite music, wardrobe choices, home decoration, and so on. Our daily aesthetic choices reveal preferences (Nanay, 2020). What factors shape individual differences in aesthetic preferences? Winner (2019)…
Source: Diaga Ellaby / Unsplash Almost daily, my husband tries to warm up to our cat, Nina, who joined our family from the Humane Animal Welfare Society (HAWS) many years ago. In his kindest, gentlest voice of her, with treat in hand, he’ll gingerly squat down to the floor. “Here Nina, come baby.” Her liquid…
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Over the years, I have observed many creative terms for military psychologists. Some are funny and adapted to the way the military names everyone. PsychO is a good depiction of this. On Navy ships, the titles of various officers are shortened, so the operations officer becomes the OpsO, the weapons systems officer becomes the Wizzo,…
As a trained family therapist, I often encounter couples who hold such different values that maintaining a relationship becomes nothing but a path to endless conflict. These days, I’ve been thinking the same about the 50 states that comprise the United States and the 10 provinces that make up the Canadian federation. Neither nation is…
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“Healed enough” is a myth, not a fact. “I’m still too broken. I can only date when I’ve done all my healing work.” “I still don’t feel ready to apply – I can still hear my father’s voice in my head, that means it’s not time, right? Not if his voice is still there. “I’ll…
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Source: EA Segal Empathy is a popular buzzword used in media, politics, and our everyday conversations. This is especially true as we watch the unfolding of horrific shootings in public spaces. Truly having empathy is more complex than common usage would lead us to believe. What do we mean when we say we have empathy?…
Source: 12019/Pixabay A recent study by Levari et al. from Harvard University and the University of Virginia questions the assumptions that the best performers (eg, most successful authors, singers, chess players, business people) give the best advice. The research, published in the May issue of Psychological Scienceis summarized below. Investigating the Value of Advice From…
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