Whether it’s after a breakup, beginning a new phase in life, or moving somewhere far from home, there are plenty of reasons to start a spiritual cleanse. In fact, a spiritual cleansing can bring you peace, clarity, and happiness. What is spiritual cleansing? Spiritual cleansing is, essentially, removing negative energies from your home and person. These “blockages” you pick up from the world around you can cause harm to you physically, spiritually and mentally....

It’s the quality of the sleep that matters most and waking up refreshed and recharged for the new day is not something to take for granted, especially as we age. We all know that getting restful sleep reduces stress, helps us maintain proper body weight, keeps our brains sharp, and supports our immune system — and these are just a few ways quality sleep impacts our health. But what if we just can’t sleep?...

If you want relationships more than a hookup, you need light. RELATED: This Is How ‘Friends With Benefits’ Usually Ends, Says Study Meeting a guy at a club when you’re in full makeup and dress spells hookup if you’re not careful. Guys always want you at night. If you fall for the initial attraction and don’t do your homework, then you’re headed for an often less than memorable one-night stand....

Children surely are the project of their parents and need to be told, yet they hate listening at times. So, how do you give advice to a teenager in a way that will compel them to actually listen to you? Before we go any further, the most important thing to note is that you are the elder in the equation and you have to keep your dignity and sanity at all times....

Maintaining a sense of humor is particularly important when raising ADHD and non-ADHD kids. Everybody does things they’re proud of as a parent and things that they wish they hadn’t. Having compassion for yourself when you stumble enables you to giggle at your foibles without bombarding yourself with shame. Self-blame or criticism of others often intensifies small incidents into full-blown explosions. Turning to humor in challenging situations reduces the chance of a meltdown and helps you recover from setbacks more easily....

These are the kind of relationships your friends beg you to leave. You may stay anyway because you’re caught up in recreating or rectifying some unhealthy family dynamic you haven’t yet grown beyond. If that’s the case, a self-help article is unlikely to help you know when it’s time to break up. Yours is in the realm in need of a qualified therapist. Should I break up with my boyfriend (or girlfriend)?...

Losing weight for most people is a long, strenuous process. You have your exercising and your dieting, but those two things don’t come easily to everyone. RELATED: 5 Surprising Ways You Are Killing Your Weight-Loss Progress Some believe they aren’t doing enough, or find that they’re doing too much yet still not seeing the results they’re looking for. Others may not know exactly how to lose weight with lifestyle changes that work in the long term for them....

What pisses us off can sometimes be attributed to our zodiac sign, believe it or not. Our signs are major predictors of what we can tolerate and what we just absolutely will not stand for in our lives. Even our horoscopes can hint at the things we should avoid altogether. One thing we all have in common is that so much of what pisses us off comes from what other people do....

What if you had help turning lemons into lemonade? What if this became the moment you took a chance on yourself to change your life and maybe even built a company that could change the world? How To Start Profitable Small Business at Home Creating a business is hard work and a lot goes into growing one from scratch, especially if you want it to be successful. Not only do you need to come up with the idea for your business, but whatever it is you think of has to be the solution to something for potential customers....

While it’s not fair to demonize a person for experiencing a normal emotion like jealousy, there’s a fine line between what’s acceptable and what’s problematic. RELATED: 12 Toxic Traits Of A Jealous Mother-In-Law & How To Deal With Her It’s interesting to note that many successful individuals have spoken out about the impact jealousy’s had on their relationships. Affluent entrepreneurs reveal the more they progress with their lives, the more it feels like they lose friends along the way....

The now-deleted post consisted of a long message that many felt blamed the non-binary community for conservative legislation that deems hormone replacement therapy and gender-affirming surgery not medically necessary in Florida. RELATED: Why Jacob Elordi Says The ‘Euphoria’ Set Is ‘Like Being In Hell’ Amid Working Condition Concerns Naturally, as a trans woman herself, Schafer’s fans were shocked that she would like something so offensive against another group in the LGBT+ community....

The footage from inside the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) aircraft shows the crew battling heavy turbulence and watching the lightning storms rage outside. Nick Underwood’s shared a video in the eye of Hurricane Ian. “When I say this was the roughest flight of my career so far, I mean it,” Underwood tweeted. “I have never seen the bunks come out like that. There was coffee everywhere. I have never felt such lateral motion....

I happen to be one of the people who gets extremely painful periods. While I have a low tolerance for pain, in general, period pain is something I don’t wish upon anyone. I don’t remember my periods being super painful in middle school. As I aged, I experienced increasingly painful menstruations. I had the worst PMS symptoms beforehand: headaches, nausea, and even depression. My cramps felt so awful that I once crawled on the floor in the middle of the night so I could beg my mom for some painkillers....

Many of my family members are teachers. And like many others, I had a favorite teacher — in fact, I had many favorite teachers. They were all different but shared a common thread in the sense that they encouraged and inspired me in ways that wanted to make me a better person. When you become a teacher, you learn skills, procedures, policies, and processes. You also learn about instructional strategies in a way that supports your students at all levels of learning....

There comes a time in every girl’s life where she and her best friend have a fight, and that, my friends, was what led me to lose my virginity. My best friend and I had gotten into an argument about how a boy was treating her, right before she was set to leave for Italy for a month. Before our fight she made it clear, “Don’t lose your virginity when I’m away, I want to hear about it right after it happened....

“Do you have the bulimia thing again?” “No.” RELATED: Counting Calories: My Messed Up Relationship With Food This time, I’m not lying. His brow stays furrowed as his eyes search mine for a harrowingly long second, then he softens. And so I do, too, and outwardly we carry on our day as if we never discussed the matter. He believes me. Even now, he doesn’t completely trust me, though. Nobody in this house does — and I can’t say I blame them....

Then I started dating somebody new, and things got ugly. During a miserable winter night, he assaulted and raped me. After three days of ignoring his calls, I sent him an email telling him never to contact me again. RELATED: Woman Learns ‘Nice Guy’ Ex-Boyfriend Hid Under Her Bed & Stalked Her For Weeks After Breakup The only thing was: I was easy to contact. I was online, all over, all the time....

I once heard Stephen Colbert, in reference to his father and brothers’ death, say that he felt like he had a secret name. You meet someone, and you tell them who you are, but that’s just the surface stuff. They don’t know your secret name and it’s a name that no one can pronounce. They don’t know what you have endured. I never wanted other people to know my secret name....

Between Kourtney, Kim, Khloé and Rob Kardashian, as well as Kylie Jenner, there are 12 children who need to be cared for by nannies while their parents manage their hectic careers. Kim is known for having a team of nannies on call 24/7, who each make a salary of around $100,000 a year. But the cost of caring for the Kardashian kids comes as part of an intense selection process when being hired....

I have experienced the same dream at least four times in my life, and each time there are only a few minor differences. Recently, I have wondered: Is the dream prophetic? Is it just a warning? Or am I truly dreaming of you, my future love? Like everyone, as a young child I had an image of the perfect man. RELATED: What It Means When You Dream About Your First Love I even had it down to his background and his personality....