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Every child yearns to be listened to, heard, and understood. At the same time, however, a child doesn’t have the cognitive or psychological tools they need to make sense of their own painful or ...

We’ve often been told that it’s important to speak our truth—voicing our honest feelings, thoughts, and perceptions. We’ve been warned against being codependent and concealing our true feelings to ...

Makeup can often be written off as a mask — it's frivolous, vain, or a phony impression of who you really are. But anyone who owns even one tube of lipstick knows that's not always true. Makeup, like ...