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Tom Brady says ‘good witch’ wife Gisele helps him win titles with altars, rituals

Reading Time: 2 minutes“She always makes a little altar for me at the game, because she just wills it so much,” Brady said. “So she put together a little altar for me that I can bring with pictures of my kids, and I have these little special stones and healing stones and protection stones, and she has me wear this necklace, and take these drops she makes, and I say all these mantras, and I stopped questioning her a long time ago.”

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Your Cold and Flu Arsenal #6: Five More Essential Oils to Treat and Beat Cold and Flu

Reading Time: 5 minutesI love essential oils because they’re basically concentrated plant medicine. The small bottles are so easy to carry with you and pull out at need.

A lot of people get confused because essential ‘oil’ is somewhat of a misnomer. These substances are actually not oily at all, and are created (most often) through a complex distillation method that extracts the medicinal essence of a plant from the water and plant matter.

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Informed
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Vox: The real national emergency is Trump’s incompetence

Reading Time: 4 minutesHe’s flailing and can’t get anything done.
Today’s national emergency declaration from Donald Trump is an obvious fraud, detectable if nothing else by the reality that various White House and congressional officials have been teasing it as a possibility for months. In a real emergency, you act fast.

In a fake emergency, you act when you’ve decided the political timing is right as part of a larger ass-covering move because you need to back down from an ill-advised congressional fight that, itself, followed from an ill-advised campaign promise.

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IS THERE A PLACE FOR VULNERABILITY IN BUSINESS?

Reading Time: 5 minutesIn my consulting work, I frequently help teams try to cultivate connection, understanding and shared goals. As part of the process, I set up exercises in which team members are given opportunities to self-disclose—on topics ranging from their preferred work styles to family background—and everyone chooses how much they are willing to share. Although the exercises are artificial, they work. I consistently hear from the team members how they help them to better understand their colleagues, feel closer to one another, and have better working relationships.

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