The month of May is overflowing with national health observances, and here at Lively Women, we’re going to talk about them! After all, how can you be lively if you’re not healthy?
If you often feel tense or worried about situations that don’t really warrant it, if you can’t shake anxious feelings even though you know that they’re not necessary or helpful, or if you feel anxious or worried most of the time, you may be suffering from Generalized Anxiety Disorder, an illness that affects approximately 6.8 million American adults and is found more frequently in women than in men.
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We’ve already talked about how writing can be good for you, but Catherine Orenstein has taken it to the next level. She’s training women to write opinion pieces and get them published in newspapers. So not only are you getting the benefits of writing down your thoughts and ideas, but you’re gaining the satisfaction of seeing them in print and potentially affecting a lot of lives.
Uproars over the sparse numbers of women in newspapers, or on news programs, in magazines, and on best-seller lists regularly erupt every couple of years. A doozy occurred in 2005, after the liberal …read more