How Does Blood Clot?
Overview Blood clotting, also called blood coagulation, occurs in reaction to a wound to halt the flow of blood. This happens so that blood loss will stop and also so that the wound will be closed and no bacteria or…
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Suicidal Coward
Suicide is always a choice, and the reasons for choosing to do so are not always easily understood by most people. This then denies us the right to call someone a coward for taking his own life. We do not…
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Decision Making during Grief
In the midst of unmistakable grief, life has a thoroughly intolerant way of continuing on. While you are in the grief process, it is wise to take a step back from major life decisions. Home-Whether due to death, divorce, or…
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Why Women Feel Breast Implants will Increase their self Confidence
Why women feel breast implants will increase their self-confidence? A woman’s self-confidence can explode when she feels comfortable with her appearance. Women with small breasts have a problem with their clothes looking good on them and they will have a…
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How to on Grief Support
The world has ended. Nothing matters anymore. Emptiness and despair enveloping an entire life. Losing a loved one, either to death or separation, is the most sorrowful event any person will ever face. Love is like an addiction, to love…
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How to get Hair to Grow Faster
Some people adore walking around with closely cropped hair, or even shaven heads, at all times. But if what you are hoping for is long, luscious hair and just can’t wait for it to grow faster, there are some things…
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How you Deal with Death
There is no flawless formula for this special transition. Death has so many different ways of presenting itself. My grandfather died in 1967; I was a young child. I was aware of the permanence of death at that tender age…
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Getting the Balance of looks right for your Body
Bodies take on many shapes and forms, and it may take looking at this diagram to understand what is meant by an inverted triangular shaped body. The fact is that many women find themselves to be top heavy, with very…
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How to get Rid of Dark Patches on Elbows
One of the leading causes of dark skin on knees and elbows is the constant friction they might be receiving when you lean on your elbows or sit on your knees. Luckily there are a few ways to get rid…
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How to Support Parents who have Watched their Child Die
A parent who loses a child needs your support. This kind of loss is one of the most powerful losses a human being can endure. Everything that a parent works toward is supposed to lead to their child living a…
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What is Body Image
Your body image is the subjective concept of your physical appearance based on self-observation and the reactions of others. This means that the concept of body image is based on the perceptions made by you and others about your appearance,…
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How to Understand there is no such Thing as a Perfect Body
Physical beauty comes in all shapes and sizes: it’€™s also only skin deep. Unfortunately it’€™s the superficial appearance that most people tend to focus on, instead of the overall picture. This is especially true when it comes to the various…
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Decisions you should never Make while Grieving
When a person is grieving, he or she is not in the frame of mind that is suitable for making certain decisions. Those who do try to make good choices during this time will often end up making the wrong…
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How to Deal with Death
It may sound trite, but the words from a prayer, “In the midst of life, we are in death” are so true. They mean that each and everyone of us will be called upon to deal with death as part…
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Eulogy for my Mother
Evelyn Marie Marone Karlsson, celebrated 93 years of life that few of us can understand. To have lived through the depression and World War II, the cold war, The Kennedy era, The scandals of the 70’s the boom of the…
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Suicide not Justified – No
A girl dies with a note on her night stand and it’s labeled a suicide. Questions are swirling around like a tornado on why she would do something like that. It wasn’t like her she wasn’t upset…or at least didn’t seem to be. While those questions…
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Specialized Compression Garments for Gynecomastia
Whilst most men derive pleasure from the sight of a shapely female breast the last thing they want to do is develop male breasts of their own. However gynecomastia is the condition of over developed male breasts, which may be…
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Proper Funeral Etiquette
It is important to observe proper funeral etiquette when attending services. Being able to behave appropriately depends on having an understanding of what behavior is considered acceptable and what behavior is considered unacceptable. Proper funeral etiquette covers a range of…
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Love yourself and Boost your Body Image
Here you are again: a new summer at its start and you hate the sight of your own reflection. It sadly happens to almost all of us and it’s something we don’t usually worry as much during the winter, when…
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Picture Perfect the Price of Beauty
It would be wonderful if we pursued being beautiful on the inside as well being beautiful on the outside. True beauty emanates from within. There is that old saying, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” It…
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How to help a Grieving Spouse
How to help a grieving spouse? The loss of a loved one can put a dent in anyone’s armor. If spouses have been together for many years, the loss is more devastating. Their whole life revolved around each other. After…
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Ways to Support a Friend going through a Crisis
A friend is going through a crisis. You’ve been close for years, so you are capable of detecting changes and observing that things just don’t add up. Nothing’s been said to you, but you can see signs. Do you say…
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Helping someone Cope with Grief or Loss
We all have lost someone who we have loved at some point in our lives. Death does not discriminate. No matter how much money you have or how happy you are in your life, we all go through the same…
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Suicide Funerals
No death is “easy” to deal with or accept. Those closest to the deceased feel an overwhelming curtain of grief wash over them that can leave them feeling lost, fearful and alone among many other emotions. If the deceased died…
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Taking one Day at a Time after Reaching the Age of 80
On reaching 80 Mickey opened the mail on his birthday. It was no surprise to find several cards from friends and relatives. A card from his former mother in law said that they were holding a party for him on…
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Natural looks and how Thin Doesn’t always mean Beautiful
I must admit, this is a topic of conversation that is quite popular around the water-cooler. When we think of “natural”looks, what, exactly do we mean? Is the woman with the tattoos or the pierced eyebrow beautiful? Perhaps, in her…
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Self Harm
Self harm is a very common occurrence; it is also greatly misunderstood by both society and the medical profession. There is a misconception that those who self harm are teenage girls, in their bedrooms or Goths listening to the wrong…
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Decisions you should never Make while Grieving
This article is written from the experience of grief and regret. When someone loses a family member or loved one, the world becomes a very strange place. It’s almost as if the very roots of their existence are pulled from…
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The Futile Battle against Imperfections
The other day a friend of mine said she wished she had married a plastic surgeon. The thought briefly crossed my mind that I, too, wished the same thing on occasion. We have all heard the phrase, “beauty is in…
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How Families in Crisis Build Stronger Family Bonds and Reach Reconciliation
Everyone would like to be part of one big “happy family”. What are the dynamics of a “happy family”? Most families enjoy happy times together. However, enduring the crisis and harder times together as a family, may serve a much…
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Should Designers Start Making Clothes for Plussize and Bigger Women
Designers should absolutely be making clothing for full-figured women! Don’t all women deserve to look the best they can regardless of their size? Plus sized women are often stereotyped as being slobs and not caring about their appearance because of…
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