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No one should have to dread washing their natural-textured hair because of the detangling process. It can be an easy and simple step! We have a few tips that will help you make detangling natural hair a breeze. Read on to find out what they are: ** 1. Detangle from the ends and work your way up. First things first, you cannot—cannot!—detangle your hair from the root first. The detangling process should always happen in increments, and start from the ends of your hair....

As I write this, hanging out is discouraged and even outlawed during the pandemic, and we’ve relied on technological substitutes. Nevertheless, no virus can remove the human propensity to gather. Community is essential to life. And yet, our pull to community requires continual examination, because the very glue we use to hold ourselves together in community can fester into in-groupiness, where the key defining feature of the group is who is excluded....

Meditation is no longer a mystery, and no longer remains on the periphery of medical theory in the recent decades thanks to the work of pioneers like Jon Kabat-Zinn. “There are a lot of studies that are being done now that are showing the benefit of mindfulness for all kinds of conditions,” says Mark Epstein, an American author and psychotherapist, in a recent video from Big Think. Here are three ways mindfulness can benefit our brains: 1) Mindfulness pulls you out of emotional traps Mindfulness helps us not cling to what’s pleasant and not condemn what is unpleasant....

** 1. To prevent a sunburnt scalp If you have never gotten a sunburn on your scalp, then you are lucky. If you are a dude with a super short cut (like a buzz cut or a totally shaved head), you don’t have much hair protection from sun exposure. So if you are spending a lot of time outside, like crushing it on the slopes without a hat on, you’ll be susceptible to getting burned....

The entrepreneur, we’ll call him Sam, led a fast-growing company of around 150 people, and during the time we’d worked together he’d gracefully navigated his company through a significant shift in focus. Given his nearly 20 years in the CEO seat and his natural leadership abilities, he played a mentor role to the other entrepreneurs in the group. He was calm in stressful situations, and no matter how boisterous the group, the others listened when he spoke....