A recent report from the Center for Disease Control states that: About 42 women die every day from a drug overdose (including those from prescription painkillers). Since 2007, more women have died from drug overdoses than from motor vehicle crashes. More than 940,000 women were seen in emergency departments for drug misuse or abuse in […]
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Prescription Pain Killers are on the Rise for Women When They Shouldn’t Be
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Why Men Hide Their Vulnerability Differently Than Women.
One of the most important insights shared by Brene Brown in her TED talk on shame and vulnerability is about how shame in our culture is organized by gender.
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Why Harsh Judgements of Women and Men are Harmful: The Pressure to Live Correct, Morally Perfect Lives is Forcing Us to Live a Remake of The Truman Show
In a recent Huff Post Travel blog, a woman tells of being searched by Vermont border guards who disapproved of her sexy underwear and looked “scathingly” at the condoms they discovered in one of her bags. About a week later in the airport at Montreal, she was detained for several hours and insulted by customs […]
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Who Are the Ladies in HBO’s Girls?
The trailer introducing each episode of the first season of Girls begins with Hannah asking the question “Who are the ladies?”followed by provocative hints of how they currently live:
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Genes Don’t Control Us, We Control Them!
In a recent teleseminar sponsored by the National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine, Bruce Lipton, PhD and Ruth Buczynski, PhD shared the following insights gained from current research in neuroscience:
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