The Challenge Of Turning Your Tragedy Into A Teachable Moment

I've heard it be said that breakups make for the best country songs. And this explains why, their full of raw emotion.

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Where You Can Find Positive Female Role Models In A Negative Saturated Pop-Culture

You literarily (or perhaps more so spiritually) have to fight the negative depictions trying to impose itself on you through media and your surroundings. How you see yourself will most certainly influence how you live your life and determine what you deem yourself worthy of.

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If Opportunity Doesn't Come Knocking, Build A Door

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.