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Falling Short of Your Resolutions? 3 Ways You’re Going Wrong

I’d like to welcome guest blogger and friend Brett Blumenthal, a wellness expert and coach, and bestselling author of A Whole New You: Six Steps to Ignite Change for Your Best Life (Dec 2012) 52 Small Changes: One Year to a Happier, Healthier You (Jan 2012). Read more from Brett at sheerbalance.com. Here, Brett shares…
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Why You Should Date a Man With Baggage

When you find out a guy has been married before, do you hit the brakes? Worry that he may have too much…baggage? I tell you what: You should be far more afraid of the dudes with zero baggage. I personally have never trusted someone who travels a little too light. You want a real grown-up…
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Don’t Cry For Me: How Emotional Bait Failed to Save a Second Date

I cried like a bitch at the end of The Sessions. This was not a single tear or two. This was full-on heaving, both hands to your head and give it up in a snobby, snotty fit. If you saw the movie, you know why. Because it’s incredibly fucking moving. Because you fall in love…
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Why I’m Afraid I’ll Ruin Christmas

Why? Because I’ve ruined a few. And not just Christmas–pick any holiday, really. It happens the same way every time: I drive up with the best of intentions, sipping coffee on the Merritt Parkway, indulging in caffeinated visions of familial joy. I think, “I’m going to be really nice this time. And fun. And if…
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Why You’re Afraid of Online Dating

If you turn your nose up at online dating, or love to complain about how “it doesn’t work,” I have a suggestion: Replace the term “online dating” with “my love life” and you’ll have a fairly accurate take on what’s holding you back in the relationships department. Look, I know why you’re afraid: You think…
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But Dating’s Too Hard! (& Other Lies You Tell Yourself)

You have this idea about dating. And it’s wrong. Actually, you have a lot of ideas, presumptions, assumptions, and suspicions about dating, and they’re the things that hold you back and make dating miserable. One of my favorites is this one: “Dating takes too much effort.” I’m sorry—wha? Anything worth doing requires effort. Sure, dating…
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Forever Is Overrated–Unless You’re a Vampire

In the final scene of Breaking Dawn, Part II (trust me, this is hardly a spoiler), our immortal lovers make out in a field of daisies, promising they will love each other forever. As the scene fades to black, the word “forever” burns across the screen. And it occurred to me shortly thereafter, in the…
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“You Still Single?” How to Cope with the Inevitable Question This Holiday

If you’re the sole single at your family gathering, you may feel the heat. Fact: Your relatives will ask you about your romantic status. They want to know! This might feel like a nuisance, a minor bump in the conversation, or it may feel very confronting. But it doesn’t have to be. You can’t change…
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Don’t Listen to that Crap: Your Career Isn’t Killing Your Relationship

The very notion that we have to choose between relationship and career sets us back at least 50 years. (And why do that, when we have the GOP to do it for us?). I just think that whole thinking is so, SO damn tired. And quite frankly, insulting. There’s no question that managing a career…
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How to Cope with Jealousy

Jealousy is a beast of a thing. It makes you hate the situation you’re in, the people involved, and yourself. It’s a storm of anger, fear, and self-loathing. And the more you focus on it in an effort to control it, the more out of control it gets. I get jealous. And I’ve discovered something…
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Falling Short of Your Resolutions? 3 Ways You’re Going Wrong

Why You Should Date a Man With Baggage

Don’t Cry For Me: How Emotional Bait Failed to Save a Second Date

Why I’m Afraid I’ll Ruin Christmas

Why You’re Afraid of Online Dating

But Dating’s Too Hard! (& Other Lies You Tell Yourself)

Forever Is Overrated–Unless You’re a Vampire

“You Still Single?” How to Cope with the Inevitable Question This Holiday

Don’t Listen to that Crap: Your Career Isn’t Killing Your Relationship

How to Cope with Jealousy

Get your ideas out of your head

—AND INTO THE WORLD