When this happens, it’s good to know how to turn down a job offer but keep the door open to avoid burning bridges and give yourself an opportunity to work there in the future. Most hiring managers have heard the words “thank you, but no thank you” before. A humble and respectable rejection simply lies in the way you go about it. It’s important to keep it professional when turning down a job while letting it be known how appreciative you are to have been considered in the first place....

For most, memories begin to fade away as time passes. But for people with mental health conditions like anxiety or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), clearing out past memories may not be so easy. Reliving situations from the past that you’d much rather forget can disrupt your life, changing your mood or bringing back old negative feelings you thought you had buried. RELATED: What It’s Really Like To Live With Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Your memory works as a complex system that learns new things, stores them, and calls on them when they are needed....

Viral TikToks have revealed sequences, called quantum healing codes, that when repeated, are said to increase confidence, release low self-esteem, and strengthen focus and mental clarity among other things. What are quantum healing codes? These codes are based on a sequence of numbers known as the Fibonacci numbers, a series of numbers that appears naturally in nature in everything from sea life and flowers down to your own DNA. The codes were first published by Marc Gamma and Isabel Henn who claim they “‘come through’ from Divine Mother, Archangel Raphael, and Source....

The 54321 method is a resource tool to keep in the back of your mind for situations where you feel like your heart is beating out of your chest and you can’t breathe. The particular method helps bring you back to the present moment instead of flying off into the land of what-ifs where anxiety reigns. RELATED: 4 Signs Your Panic Attacks Aren’t Just Standard Anxiety — They’re Symptoms Of Agoraphobia...

As with all snappy, one-line quotes, it sounds good, but it doesn’t tell the whole story. Men are thought of as filling the role of warriors in society and the ones who decide the outcome of wars, but the impact of women in warfare cannot be ignored. Women in Ukraine — and throughout history — have fought and won many wars. Even before the advent of modern conflict and more gender diversity in national armies, women were expected to contribute to war, just as men were....

Within the hour-long episodes, random celebrities and comedians comment on pop culture, news, and music of a given decade. Rewatching these clips has not only been an entertaining crash course in pop culture history but it’s been eye-opening in terms of my social conditioning. I remember when the show debuted and I begged my parents to let me watch it with them. This was when I was young enough to feel like viewing it meant I was in on all the “grown-up secrets”....

Out of nowhere, after a brief period of mostly unanswered texts and emails, she cut off all contact. It was disastrous to my self esteem, a solid 6.9 on the Richter scale of emotional earthquakes. At that point, my life was a pretty solid structure, but most days my heart still felt like a slapped-together shack built on the banks of a river during flood season. Being ghosted by someone so important to me brought on a great deal of violent shaking and damage to my own inner epicenter....

First, though, I head home. I let my husband know, grab a notebook, reassure the kids, make sure the cats are fed, and drive myself to the hospital. As I search for a carpark, the final scenes of a movie I watched last night with my oldest girls run through my head. As musical lovers, we decided to watch Tik Tik Boom. It tells the story of writer Jonathan Larson, and his struggles to produce a well-received musical....

Over the past couple of months, I’ve been casually dating multiple guys, and sometimes at the same time. One thing that has become pretty clear to me, is that all of these guys have the same thing in common: they’re not so interested in dating me, but they’re very interested in my body. Maybe we can chalk it up to a s****y personality (I guess anything is possible), or maybe it’s because I’m not meeting men in the right places....

My husband and I had been trying to conceive for 6 months. In that time, I experienced two early miscarriages — both of which caught me off-guard. I was shocked by how much I grieved — by how much I loved and felt a connection to a baby-that-would-be, given that I was pregnant for only days. In the aftermath of my losses, I felt anxious about subsequent pregnancies — the excitement and joy of pregnancy were short-lived and now foreign....

And while you may think you know a little bit about this person from your digital interaction, in reality, you know nothing. People can present themselves any way they want online, which is why you need to be aware of what first-date warning signs to look out for! RELATED: 5 Qualities That ALL Great Men Have (So Don’t Shortchange Yourself!) In other words, blind dates are truly blind dates. In the old days, there was a natural vetting process — where you had time to get to know someone before going on your first date....

You’re enough of a realist to expect some down days and the occasional heated arguments. None of those are on your favorites list, but they wouldn’t qualify your marriage as “unhappy,” either. Being in an unhappy marriage for several years takes a different toll. Believe it or not, fighting isn’t necessarily a bad thing in marriage. It’s “why” and “how” you battle things out that matter. Couples who understand this aren’t afraid of a little heat, because they know it can help bring about positive change....

Even when you suspect there’s someone else and go looking for evidence, finding the evidence you were afraid you would is just as painful as when it pops up unexpectedly. But the most horrible feeling of all is meeting the affair partner or stumbling onto secret texts and discovering that the one you loved and trusted completely smeared you to someone else, even as you gave that person your all in the relationship....

Madonna has been very open in the past about her promiscuity but she’s never openly come out. That seems to have changed recently in a TikTok she’s posted that alludes to the fact that she’s gay. But fans are split — is she coming out or is she queerbaiting? Is Madonna gay? The singer appeared to tell fans that she is gay while participating in a TikTok trend. The mentioned TikTok was posted on October 9 and shows the pop singer throwing (and missing) an item into a wastebasket....

Especially immediately following the passing of a loved one. The person orchestrating everything — whether closest friend or family member — might be flooded with phone calls, direct messages, and cards in the mail. While the show of sympathy is something to be cherished, when the calls stop and kind words cease, it’s still a lot. RELATED: 3 Ways To Grieve — And Survive — Your Massive Loss (So You Can Move Forward with Your Life)...

After the events that 2020 brought us, including a pandemic, I was looking forward to 2021. I imagined it would be a year full of growth and adventures. I was so ready for that but, unfortunately, this year had other plans for me. It has been beyond hard, but it has not broken me. This year, I have dealt with some life-altering events, like my parents separating. As an adult, you think it would be easier to deal with, but news flash: It is not....

One such advertisement included an offer of a so-called “reduced room” in San Diego at just $600 a month — but there’s a catch. The ad wants someone to pay rent while working for free as a live-in nanny. The post states that the renter “must be able to care for my 7 year old.” The person would be required to clean the home, pick up the child from school at 3:15pm and babysit them until 2:30am....

As Johnny Depp looks forward to the “next chapter” of his life after being “humbled” by the defamation verdict and Amber Heard’s disappointment is “beyond words,” there’s a much bleaker scene playing out among the cult-like fans that disagree with Depp’s win. RELATED: Alleged Juror In Johnny Depp-Amber Heard Trial Breaks Silence On TikTok & Calls Amber Heard A ‘Crazy Woman’ A new trend has popped up on Twitter in support of Heard and in disapproval of Depp, but while the message behind it may not be malicious, the lengths that people are willing to go to in order to express their objections are harmful and wrong....

The Kardashians have long been accused of staging their reality TV show and fans think they have new clues that prove nothing is as real as it seems on the popular show. In the latest fan theory, people are calling into question the legitimacy of everything going on, pointing at specific frames, caller IDs, and timings of events. RELATED: 6 Details About Travis Barker That Make Kourtney Kardashian Fans Worry She’s With Another ‘Problematic Man’...

A Reddit user uploaded the note in a post titled: “I still can’t believe while Khloé was writing this paragraph, Tristan was making a new sibling for True and Prince.” In an Instagram post from March 13, 2021, Kardashian wrote: “The ones that are meant to be are the ones who go through everything that is designed to tear them apart and they come out even stronger than they were before....