December 2022

How to Start Gardening for Your Mental Health and Wellness

Guest Author December 22, 2022 How to Start Gardening for Your Mental Health and Wellness Success Consciousness Gardening seems like a typical hobby, but it has proven advantages for many. Spending time communing with nature teaches you to be patient and understand life’s cycle. Not only are you growing plants, flowers, and produce, but it […]

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This High School is Doing Whatever it Takes to Mentor First-Generation Students

In Homer’s ancient story The Odyssey, the goddess Athena, disguised as old man Mentor, reveals to the hero’s son the right path to take. Skip forward several millennia and across the Atlantic to an urban high school preparing teens for life after graduation, and the image of mentor-as-lone-sage doesn’t quite paint the picture. If one

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The Major Aha Moment That Helped Me Stop Fixating on Fixing Myself

“The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.” ~Maya Angelou My newest friend ended our three-month-long friendship on a July day when I’d just returned from a dreadful summer vacation. Her Dear Jane email read, “It’s not you, it’s me.” The lever had been pulled, I was dumped, and I thought, “Ha!”

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Pregnant Workers Might Soon Have Accommodations Making It Easier to Work Up to Delivery

The end of pregnancy brings an onslaught of challenges for working parents-to-be. These include the physical pain of carrying another human, achy joints, a stretching belly and a cramping back. Then, there’s the emotional toll and sheer exhaustion that comes with pregnancy, especially in the third trimester. Yet, there is little protection for a pregnant

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Discover the Formula for Happy Employees

The formula for maintaining a workplace with happy employees is straightforward, psychologists and researchers say. However, it’s just not always a piece of cake. Entertainment perks and employee-friendly campuses take center stage when Google and SAS claim top spots on “Best Places to Work” lists. But what’s more important is the process these companies use

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