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Goodbye Nursing Homes: New Trend is Senior Cohousing With Friends

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Do Loved Ones Communicate After Death Via Signs and Synchronicity?

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How to Survive Tough Times? Tell Yourself this Powerful Sentence!

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6 Reasons We Don’t Meet People By Accident (And For A Reason')

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Meet Karen Salmansohn! She has close to 2 million online fans and a celebrity following. She’s the founder of NotSalmon and NotSalmon Courses – plus, a multi best selling author with close to 2 million books sold nationally and internationally – a columnist for Oprah and Psychology Today – and an award winning designer of books, posters, jewelry and videos.

Her mission: To offer you easy-to-understand insights and tools to empower you to bloom into your happiest, highest potential self. She uses playful analogies, feisty humor, and stylish graphics to distill big ideas.

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How To Deal With An Enemy or Toxic Person So They Don’t Get To You

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Parenting Tool: How To Motivate Kids Without Nagging

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A Major Red Flag In Love You Should Never Ignore

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