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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How to have a Party Conversation
September 13, 2015 Communication
Look Forward to Your Next Party Conversation The holidays are fast approaching and with them parties: The office party, the home owner’s association party, charity and business association parties, school parties, church parties, parties, parties, parties. Remember the good old…
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When and how to End a Friendship
September 13, 2015 Friends and Peers
The beauty of youth is the knowledge that the friendships you have will last a lifetime. The dreams you share are wonderful and you can’t wait to grow up. You will be best friends forever, how can you possibly imagine…
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Communication Pay Attention non Verbal Skills Feedback Message Credible
September 13, 2015 Communication
Communicating Effectively – According to Kristie Raburn, when wanting to improve upon becoming a more effective communicator you should consider these four steps in doing so: Step One – Establish Credibility: You should first lay the groundwork for the first…
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Friendship Issues Advice
September 13, 2015 Friends and Peers
There are many variations of friendship, each of which serves a different purpose in our lives. There are the work associates, who make each day at our nine to five more enjoyable and occasionally spill over into our personal lives….
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Dealing with a Platonic Friendship
September 13, 2015 Friends and Peers
The very mention of a “platonic friendship” immediately arouses suspicion in marriage partners who find it difficult to accept that their spouse could have a deep friendship with a member of the opposite sex without sexual attraction. Dealing with a…
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Buyers Guide to plus Size Dresses
I love dresses. Whether they’re for casual wear or a night out I always look forward to shopping for a dress. Especially now that the market has opened up for plus size women. There was a time when, as a…
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How to Practice your Listening Skills
September 13, 2015 Communication
How can you practice your listening skills in a manner that will allow you enhance those skills, and become a better listener? The key to anything in life is that practice makes perfect, so the best thing is to get…
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What is Active or Reflective Listening
September 13, 2015 Communication
Communicating effectively with your partner can be difficult. It requires more than merely talking to your partner. Too often in relationships we fail to say what we feel and/or we feel misunderstood. And yet It is critical that we are…
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The Benefits of Complete Honesty in our Relationships
September 13, 2015 Communication
Aside from the fact that most of us, well at least in my case, were taught from a very young age NOT TO LIE, honesty has many benefits to any type of relationship. I have found that my personality craves…
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Saying no Conflict Coward Conflict End your Relationshiprespect Creates Intimacy
September 13, 2015 Communication
Many people have great difficulty in uttering the word no. No matter how much they want to say it, something always holds them back. Suppressing their real feelings, they pretend to be different from what they really are, until they…
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Friendship Issues Advice
September 13, 2015 Friends and Peers
Poignant and heartrending are those films that depict for us the emotional stronghold that is that of friendship. These movies arouse within us the camaraderie that only bosom buddies can share. Laced with sorrow and anger, or tears and laughter,…
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Differences in Size with Female Clothing
Sizes in clothes? They may as wel not exist! How can it be that a woman who sees her self as average height, average size….just a normal, everyday gal…. be a size 10 in peacocks yet the size 14 in…
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Friendship Issues Advice
September 13, 2015 Friends and Peers
When I was in school friendship bracelets came into fashion. They were these handmade embroidery floss or thread bracelets that symbolized friendship, and they were given from one good friend to another. I remember giving one or two to friends…
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Plus Size Women Fashion Tips what not to Wear
Plus size clothing is not always fashionable or flattering. It is also not always affordable. But a plus size woman can look nice, even when it is hot. Consider shopping. There are plus-size women’s stores, but they are generally very…
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Effective Comunication even when Confrontational
September 13, 2015 Communication
As someone who has been known for not having tact when dealing with confrontation, learning ways to communicate effectively has been a challenge. However, not every conversation is a confrontation. Either way, remaining calm, listening well, speaking clearly, clarifying statements,…
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Friendship Issues Advice
September 13, 2015 Friends and Peers
It can be heart-rending to see people leading a lonely existence, living alone into old-age with no-one they can call a true friend. Everyone needs to enjoy relationships with others as a natural ingredient of life that adds meaning and…
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The Difference between Love and Friendship
September 13, 2015 Friends and Peers
I have been in love and I have had friends. I have been in love with my friend, and had friends that I wished I could love, but didn’t. I have never failed to sense the difference between love and…
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The Negative and Positive Power of Words
September 13, 2015 Communication
Words can be weapons or magical wands. Words can be used to hurt, destroy and tear down or they can uplift, encourage and inspire. Whether written or spoken, there is no denying the power of words. Words project a visual…
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Friendship Issues Advice
September 13, 2015 Friends and Peers
The value of friendship and companionship has often been encapsulated in inspirational sayings and quotes, describing in very few words, the joy of being, or having a true and loyal friend. Quotations on the subject of friendship, both ancient and…
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Friendship Issues Advice
September 13, 2015 Friends and Peers
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years trying to get other people interested in you.” -Dale Carnegie People love. That’s not a sentence fragment; that’s the whole…
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How to Buy plus Size Swimwear
Swimwear, unless you have the perfect size three figure, is a nightmare for many women. Plus-sized? Forget it; you’d rather hide in the shade. But for those who are brave enough to show those size threes that size 20 can…
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How to Make an Argument Positive Win Win Communication
September 13, 2015 Communication
Arguments are a fact of life which often appear to just arise out of nothing. In truth,most of us would admit that the argument itself is when the top blows off some busily-fermenting problem that has been bubbling under the surface…
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Friendship Issues Advice
September 13, 2015 Friends and Peers
Healthy friendships are the cornerstone of a happy life, but how do you maintain a healthy friendship? Healthy friendships, like all relationships start with having an understanding about ones self. Knowing what you like, dislike, care about and are interested…
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How to Give and Receive Criticism
September 13, 2015 Communication
This is really a pretty good question. Depending on the context, I really don’t mind receiving criticism – at least not as much as most people. Again, it depends on the context. Unlike a lot of people, I do like…
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Dealing with a Broken Friendship
September 13, 2015 Friends and Peers
When you enjoy a deep, loyal friendship with someone, you can never imagine a time when this warm relationship would ever end. Yet even the strongest of friendships are prone to breaking when circumstances create discord, and suddenly this close…
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Communication can be a Potent Medicine
September 13, 2015 Communication
Communication should be a required subject in schools, along with English, Math and Science. Communication skills are of utmost importance to land the desired job, to attract people with similar interests and values, to explain ideas and to ask questions….
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Best Hairstyles for Ballroom Dancing
Ballroom dancing is elegant and sophisticated and it requires a hairstyle that is elegant and sophisticated, but it also requires a hairstyle with huge staying power. The hairstyle on a ballroom dancer needs to be remarkably secure, and at the…
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Friendship Issues Advice
September 13, 2015 Friends and Peers
Where is the relational breakpoint between being an acquaintance and comfortably declaring a relationship to be a “real” friendship? When do you state that you “know” someone and when do you confidently say, “I have a FRIEND who…” Friendship is…
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Dealing with a Broken Friendship
September 13, 2015 Friends and Peers
Friendship is the most amazing yet intricately perplexing thing ever conjured up by the universe. One day you wake up lucky that you have the best friend in the world, one whom you can totally depend on, one who you…
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How to say no Nicely
September 13, 2015 Communication
Tell me if this sounds familiar – someone asks you to do something that you really don’t want to do or you honestly don’t have time for. It might be a church bake sale, a school fundraiser, participating on a…
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