Exit
other peoples’ virtual personas.
Research has shown that Facebook
addiction is correlated with lower
self-esteem. And who wouldn’t
feel bad sitting in bed on a Monday night scrolling through your
ex’s vacation photo album or the
enthusiastic statuses your friend
in the fashion industry posted
during a celeb-filled party? Instead of playing a constant game
of comparison, which studies have
shown can actually magnify feelings of depression, just close your
laptop and enjoy the present. At
least it’s real.
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Holding on to regrets and guilt. “I’m
pretty anti-regret,” Lena Dunham said at the 2012 New Yorker
Festival. Guilt and regret are two
emotions that usually serve to
torture the person feeling them.
Acknowledge your regrets and
guilts, and then move on to the
best of your ability.
10
Judging other women’s sex lives.
No woman deserves to be
put down for who she sleeps with,
how many people she sleeps with
or how she chooses to express her
sexuality. Next time you’re about to
call another woman a “prude” or a
“slut” just zip your lips. Even Miley
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No one needs to know
your ‘number.’ And
honestly, you probably care
a whole lot more about what
the sex you’re having (or not
having) supposedly says about
you than anyone else does.”
Cyrus and her twerking shouldn’t
be slut-shamed.
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Judging your own sex life. No one
needs to know your “number.” And honestly, you probably
care a whole lot more about what
the sex you’re having (or not having) supposedly says about you
than anyone else does.
Trying to be “chill.” Maybe you truly
are the “cool girl” who loves nothing more than kicking back with
a six-pack and a movie. But for
those of us who don’t possess
the “chill” gene, let’s stop trying.
Striving to be the mellow girl at
all times keeps us from expressing
our needs, desires and opinions.
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Fearing the label “crazy.” There
is no easier way to discredit
a woman’s opinion or feelings than
to accuse her of being overly emotional. “I don’t think this idea that
women are ‘crazy,’ is based in some
sort of massive conspiracy,” wrote
author Yashar Ali in a blog for The