Christina Bird Acupuncture

Parents, mentors, and friends of Mighty Girls can turn this milestone of womanhood into a much more positive experience. By providing lots of accurate information, real-life experience, and practical advice, girls can learn to view their menstrual cycle in a totally different way: as an important element of their female nature and as a key sign of coming adulthood. In this blog post, we’ll help you turn a girl’s first period into an empowering experience.

"The Supreme Court may be closed to the public, but it is still following a tradition that dates back at least back to 1873 by draping Ginsburg’s seat and the C...ourtroom doors with black wool crepe. Flags half staff for 30 days." -- Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court reporter To read more about Justice Ginsburg's extraordinary life and impact -- and discover books and films to share her powerful story with children and teen -- visit our blog post, "A Mighty Justice," at https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=18772 For adult readers inspired by Justice Ginsburg, we highly recommend her powerful memoir "My Own Words" (https://www.amightygirl.com/my-own-words-rbg) and the excellent biography "Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg" (https://www.amightygirl.com/notorious-rbg) To introduce kids to the trailblazing Justice Ginsburg, we recommend the board book "I Look Up To... Ruth Bader Ginsburg" for ages 2 to 4 (https://www.amightygirl.com/i-look-up-to-ruth-bader-ginsburg), the picture books for ages 5 to 9 "I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark" (https://www.amightygirl.com/i-dissent), and the in-depth picture book biography "Ruth Objects: The Life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg" for ages 6 to 9 (https://www.amightygirl.com/ruth-objects) For older kids, we recommend the illustrated biography "Who Is Ruth Bader Ginsburg?" for ages 8 to 12 (https://www.amightygirl.com/who-is-ruth-bader-ginsburg), the new graphic novel for ages 9 and up "Becoming RBG" (https://www.amightygirl.com/becoming-rbg), and "Dissenter on the Bench: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Life and Work" for ages 13 and up (https://www.amightygirl.com/dissenter-on-the-bench) There are also two films about Ginsburg, both of which can be streamed: the feature film "On the Basis of Sex" (https://amzn.to/2RETz6H) and the documentary "RBG" (https://amzn.to/3hIbLXJ)

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. - Desmond Tutu enoughisenough whitesilenceisviolence blacklivesmatter... whiteprivilegeisreal See more

Hosted by CNN’s Van Jones and Erica Hill, with help from Big Bird and friends, the hourlong program, ‘Coming Together: Standing Up to Racism,’ airs Saturday at 7 a.m. (Pacific Daylight Time) on CNN, CNN International and CNN en Español. Topics include how to build empathy and embrace diversity.

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Despite all of the challenges posed by this situation, we’re also presented with a unique opportunity to reconnect with our partners, redefine sex, and develop a new intimacy that has the potential to not only help us get through this pandemic, but also to strengthen our relationships for the long haul.

When I was a little girl, I dreamt about being an astronaut. (I just realized I’m wearing my Star Trek t-shirt - so perfect for this moment of reflection.) Once I realized what it would actually take to achieve astronaut status, I remember feeling a deep sadness at the most-likely-reality that I would never actually leave this planet, that I would never sit up in a spaceship and gaze down at the blue earth below. I remember loving tall buildings, the slow climb of amusement p...ark rides, and looking down over cliffs on mountain hikes - anything that gave that bird’s eye view (no pun intended) of the world around me. I stared up at soaring birds of prey, envious of their perspective, their effortless ascension as they rode invisible updrafts. That relationship probably laid the groundwork for my decision to have two red-tailed hawks tattooed prominently on my back. I say all of that to lead into my confession that as soon as the video began, I literally started happy crying. And got a good chuckle when she said her name is Christina. I’ve long accepted that I’m a deeply emotional person, and my body likes to uses tears as a way to vent and process those emotions. And while my ego or fear of vulnerability can sometimes stave off sad tears, happy tears just bumble into the party like they own the place. I’m working on not being embarrassed when my physical body is affected so deeply by my emotional experience of the world around me. I love that this website exists. I absolutely love that there are people orbiting the planet, creating content to teach and support and love on our society, to educate and entertain our kids, to give the parents a moment of reprieve. I love that there are humans sitting in a tin can far above the world, taking time to connect with those of us feeling very still. I takes two minutes for us to travel one hundred thousand miles through our solar system, all while our solar system is on course through the galaxy. Our galaxy, on its own endless journey through the universe. And here on this pale blue dot, we are practicing patience, mindfulness, and doing our best to only occasionally lose our collective shit. The concept of empty space outside our planet is both exhilarating and terrifying. The reality of our utter insignificance is one of the most beautiful concepts my brain can experience. I hope this time, this Great Pause, allows us to respect and value our planetary spaceship. I hope we can all experience our own emotions, process our pain, honor the pain of others, and learn from this time. Let’s make a conscious effort to remember the images of nature reclaiming the spaces we have long-polluted. Let’s actively note the changing scent and taste of air less filled with exhaust. Let’s take a moment to look up at the night sky and embrace the beautiful reality that the stars look very different today.

The term was coined by Viktor Frankl, the Holocaust survivor and psychiatrist from Vienna. ‘Tragic optimism’ is the ability to maintain hope and find meaning in life despite its inescapable pain, loss and suffering.

From one citizen to another, I beg of you: Take a deep breath, ignore the deafening noise, and think deeply about what you want to put back into your life. This is our chance to define a new version of normal, a rare and truly sacred (yes, sacred) opportunity to get rid of the bullshit and to only bring back what works for us, what makes our lives richer, what makes our kids happier, what makes us truly proud. We get to Marie Kondo the shit out of it all. We care deeply abou...t one another. That is clear. That can be seen in every supportive Facebook post, in every meal dropped off for a neighbor, in every Zoom birthday party. We are a good people. And as a good people, we want to define on our own terms what this country looks like in five, 10, 50 years. This is our chance to do that, the biggest one we have ever gotten. And the best one we’ll ever get. #socialdistancing

And as exhausting as moral fatigue can be, we’re experiencing it because we’re taking the time to reflect more on how our decisions and actions may affect other people. Of course, situations like the one we’re in now can also have the opposite effect, Baur says, causing people to become more selfish and self-protective (we’re looking at you, toilet paper hoarders). But for now, it can help to focus on the potential good that can come from this shift in public mindset. This i...s a sort of wake up call for all of us, Baur says. The added strain and effort, on the one hand, is unpleasant, and our lives are more complicated. But on the other hand, it’s potentially a very good thing, because the alternative is to live the usual oblivious life where we don’t recognize our interdependence. https://www.rollingstone.com//corona-exhausted-moral-fati/ See more

Museum challenges people in self-quarantine to recreate favorite works of art with objects at home #quarantine #art #selfisolation https://www.yahoo.com//museum-challenges-people-recreate-a

#Nature is the fantastic factory that makes the building blocks of all our lives. The Nature Conservancy has created Nature Lab: to help #students learn the #science behind how nature works for us and how we can help keep it running. https://www.nature.org//how-/youth-engagement/nature-lab/

Even for those of us with the happiest and most stable marriages, #socialdistancing to combat the spread of #Covid19 provides some serious challenges to our respective unions. #relationships https://apple.news/A0lIoP0jyR_OAZSqG6xTMdw