You’re sitting in traffic, late for an important meeting, watching the minutes tick away. Your hypothalamus, a tiny control tower in your brain, decides to send out the order: Send in the stress hormones! These stress hormones are the same ones that trigger your body’s “fight or flight” response. Your heart races, your breath quickens, and your muscles ready for action. This response was designed to protect your body in an emergency by preparing you to react quickly. But when the stress response keeps firing, day after day, it could put your health at serious risk.

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Physical Effects Of Stress?

Stress is a natural physical and mental reaction to life experiences. Everyone expresses <a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/whats-your-stress-type">stress </a>from time to time. Anything from everyday responsibilities like work and family to serious life events such as a new diagnosis, war, or the death of a loved one can trigger stress. For immediate, short-term situations, stress can be <a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/benefits-of-stress-you-didnt-know-about">beneficial to your health</a>. It can help you cope with potentially serious situations. Your body responds to stress by releasing hormones that increase your heart and breathing rates and ready your muscles to respond.

What Is Stress?

Your central nervous system (CNS) is in charge of your “fight or flight” response. In your brain, the hypothalamus gets the ball rolling, telling your adrenal glands to release the stress hormones adrenaline and <a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/cortisol-urine">cortisol </a>. These hormones rev up your heartbeat and send blood rushing to the areas that need it most in an emergency, such as your muscles, heart, and other important organs. When the perceived fear is gone, the hypothalamus should tell all systems to go back to normal. If the CNS fails to return to normal, or if the stressor doesn’t go away, the response will continue.

The Science Behind Stress

During the stress response, you breathe faster in an effort to quickly distribute oxygen-rich blood to your body. If you already have a breathing problem like <a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/asthma">asthma </a>or <a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/emphysema">emphysema </a>, stress can make it even harder to breathe.Under stress, your heart also pumps faster. Stress hormones cause your blood vessels to constrict and divert more oxygen to your muscles so you’ll have more strength to take action. But this also raises your blood pressure.So, frequent/ chronic stress will make your heart work too hard for too long. When blood pressure rises, so do risks for having a <a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/stroke-treatment-and-timing/risk-factors">stroke</a>/ <a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/heart-attack">heart attack </a>

Stress Hormones And Respiratory And Cardiovascular Systems

It’s not unusual to lose your desire when you’re under constant stress. While short-term stress may cause men to produce more of the male hormone testosterone, this effect doesn’t last, as long term stress can see begin to drop. This can interfere with sperm production and cause <a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/erectile-dysfunction-anxiety-stress">erectile dysfunction </a>/ impotence. Chronic stress may also increase risk of infection for male reproductive organs like the prostate and testes.For women, stress can affect the menstrual cycle. It can lead to irregular, heavier, or more painful periods. Chronic stress can also magnify the physical symptoms of <a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/menopause">menopause </a>

Reproductive System

The rush of hormones, rapid breathing, and increased heart rate can also upset your <a href="https://www.healthline.com/human-body-maps/digestive-system">digestive system </a>. You’re more likely to have heartburn or <a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/gerd/stress">acid reflux </a>thanks to an increase in stomach acid. Stress doesn’t cause ulcers (a bacterium called H. pylori often does), but it can increase your risk for them and cause existing ulcers to act up. Stress can also affect the way food moves through your body, leading to <a href="https://www.healthline.com/symptom/diarrhea">diarrhea </a>or <a href="https://www.healthline.com/symptom/constipation">constipation </a>. You might also experience <a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/nausea-and-vomiting">nausea </a>, vomiting, or a <a href="https://www.healthline.com/symptom/abdominal-pain">stomachache </a>.

How Stress Can Affect The Digestive System

Under stress, your liver produces extra blood sugar (<a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/glucose">glucose </a>) to give you a boost of energy. If you’re under chronic stress, your body may not be able to keep up with this extra glucose surge. Chronic stress may increase your risk of developing <a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/diabetes-and-stress">type 2 diabetes </a>.

High Blood Sugar

Your muscles tense up to protect themselves from injury when you’re stressed. They tend to release again once you relax, but if you’re constantly under stress, your muscles may not get the chance to relax. Tight muscles cause headaches, back and <a href="https://www.healthline.com/symptom/shoulder-pain">shoulder </a>pain, and body aches. Over time, this can set off an unhealthy cycle as you stop exercising and turn to pain medication for relief.

Muscle Pain

Stress stimulates the immune system, which can be a plus for immediate situations. This stimulation can help you avoid infections and heal wounds. But over time, stress hormones will weaken your immune system and reduce your body’s response to foreign invaders. People under chronic stress are more susceptible to viral illnesses like the <a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/cold-flu/flu">flu </a>and the <a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/cold-flu/cold">common cold </a>, as well as other infections. Stress can also increase the time it takes you to recover from an illness or injury..

Stress And The Immune System

Temporary stress can induce a short fight or flight response, but chronic stress can cause permanent damage to our heath. As someone who has not been relaxing at all due to the heat of mock exams, university interviews, intense revision plus a never-ending to-do list, I decided to read this article to deter me from pressurising myself and force myself to pause and make a better system for me.

Constant stress can increase your risk for long-term health issues like heart attack and diabetes. Learn the toll stress can take on the body.

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Personal Development

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Health

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Mental Health

The Effects of Stress on Your Body

Are you running towards life or running away from death? None of us gets out alive from this rodeo called life. Dying is a transition each of us go through and it doesn’t have to be a battle. Don’t let fear fuel your choices. Live fearlessly. Run TOWARDS life. Don’t worry about what people think. Trust me, it doesn’t matter.

Live Fearlessly - Last Words From Kerri Grote

Be true to yourself. Be your own best friend. People who tell you you’re selfish are not your people. If the voice in your head says these unkind things, get a new voice. Honor your mental health and seek out a good therapist with the same vigor you’d search for a romantic partner.Love yourself, no matter how weird and silly it might feel. Look deeply into your eyes into a mirror and say out loud “I trust you”. That voice in your head might say you’re a dork. Ignore it.

Focus On You

Another unhelpful message we get from society is that we need a “love of our life”. Don’t overlook friendships as you look for that “great love”.Be intentional about cultivating friendships that lift you up. Surround yourself with people who see your light and how amazing you are. Learn how to receive these reflections from your people. They are speaking the truth.Be proud of how you live!

Friends Are The Big Loves Of Our Lives

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Motivation & Inspiration

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Habits

Live Fearlessly

“The truth is that there is no such thing as a negative emotion. Emotions only become ‘bad’ and have a negative effect on us when they are suppressed, denied, or unexpressed.” ~Colin Tipping Emotions are constantly and powerfully guiding our lives, even when we are not aware of them, even when we do not feel them or are convinced that we can exclude them from our experiences.Emotions give us precious, sometimes indispensable information about what is best for us, about the best choices we can make, about how to behave.

Wisely Guiding Emotions, Is Behaviour.

You may have learned from your childhood that a specific emotion was disapproved of. Here's why you have to let yourself feel it.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Psychology

Forbidden Emotions: The Feelings We Suppress and Why They’re Not Bad - Tiny Buddha

Employees are more stressed in their jobs than they were during the depths of the pandemic, according to <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/354593/workers-satisfaction-job-safety-rebounds.aspx">a new survey</a> by Gallup.
Only 32 percent of workers polled in August 2021 said they were "completely satisfied" with the amount of on-the-job stress they face, down from 35 percent and 34 percent who reported feeling totally fine with their levels of stress in 2020 and 2019, respectively. More people felt either completely unhappy or just "somewhat" fine with their level of workplace stress than in 2020 and 2019.

Stress Levels Of Employees

When you can, pay up. If employees are dissatisfied with their salaries and opportunities for growth, raises and promotions can have a positive effect on morale and stress. Unfortunately, these moves aren't always feasible--so in those instances, a one-time bonus for workers can be worth the cost.
Also, cross-functional job training in different parts of a business can help some employees feel like they're getting more from their jobs.

How Employers Can Help: Cross Training Employees

Prioritizing mental health in the workplace itself has also been a challenge for many companies: A survey published in August by Vancouver-based workforce analytics company Visier found that a staggering 89 percent of U.S. employees have experienced burnout in the past year.
According to that survey, increasing time off may not be enough to eradicate burnout--and in Gallup's poll, 78 percent of employees were already "completely" or "somewhat" satisfied by the amount of vacation time offered.

Paid Time Off Isn’t Enough

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<li>Employers can relieve some workers' stress by eliminating "non-value-added work." </li>
<li>They also suggest making priorities clear and demoting some tasks as nonessential. </li>
<li>Expressing commitment to employees' success can also make them feel valued and more equipped to tackle challenges, without increasing stress.</li>
</ul>

Workflow Management

A survey on employee job satisfaction conducted by Gallup in August 2021 shows that workers are least satisfied by their level of on-the-job stress.

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Corporate Culture

Stress Levels Are Rising Again

Some laziness can be ok, especially when it’s to help us wind down and relax. But if this is impeding our life and work, it’s something that needs addressing.So how to overcome it?In Japanese culture there is this method called Kaizen Method or One Minute Principle. The principle of this technique is that a person engages in a specific activity for exactly one minute, but every day and at the same time.One minute it's too short. True, but it's a fresh start to build a habit.

1-Minute: Build A Habit

“We expect ourselves to achieve at a superhuman level, and when we fail to do so, we chastise ourselves for being lazy”.

Learn from Japanese culture, we can also manage our time more precisely, if we have a meaning to do so. That's where the Ikigai philosophy came, "to gain more happiness. "Put it simply, ikigai is what brings us joy in our daily life. It’s not something we need to find, but rather something we already have. And it's all start from doing what we love not just what we might think we will need.

Recognizing Our Ikigai

Good time management leads to improved efficiency and productivity, less stress, and more success in life. Here's three important tips for managing our time effectively:<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Organized - Avoid keeping stacks of file and heaps of paper at our workstation. Throw what all we don’t need. Put important documents in folders.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Don’t misuse time - Do not kill time by loitering or gossiping around. Concentrate on our work and finish assignments on time.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Be Focussed - Develop the habit of using planners, organizers, etc for better time management.</li></ul>

Do Effectively: 3 Important Tips

I am not very lazy person but sometime feel that I can’t do some specific things like maths, physics and one of the most difficult is Blog writing. I tried many many tricks like time management…

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Problem Solving

How to Manage Our Time Precisely

Religious conflicts have dominated history. War, terrorism, racism — all based on differing beliefs and ideologies. However, we can learn from different religions as each can offer advice and an opportunity to learn.

Find motivation and inspiration from a variety of faiths

"A person should always [take care] not cast his thoughts backwards [to the past], for his eyes are placed on his face and not his back." The Talmud This phrase reminds us of the value of looking forward and not dwelling on the past or even the present. If something happens in the past, we should reflect on it but then move on and not wallow in despair.

Judaism

“Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to your life? Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest? ” — Luke 12:25–26 Studies show about 85% of the things we worry about never happens. Stress-related emotions release cortisol that lowers the production of lymphocytes. In turn, this lowers the immune system making it easier for disease to take hold.

Christianity

“And him who seeks thy help chide not.” — Quran 93:10 Asking someone for help is not a sign of weakness but a sign of strength. It is brave to recognise that you need assistance and to reach out to someone.

Islam

"If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart." — Buddha in the Dhammapada  We should not approach tasks half-heartedly. Once you make a 100% commitment to something, there are no exceptions. Don't settle for anything less than 100%. If you feel you can't give your all to a task, then don't start it.

Buddhism

“Set thy heart upon thy work, but never on its reward.” — The Bhagavad Gita While we all like rewards, our focus should first be on the process of our work. We need to enjoy the process and not just the result. For example, if you want to lose weight and start running, take enjoyment from the run, the fresh air, getting off your computer. If you only focus on losing pounds, running will become a chore.

Hinduism

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” — Dao De Jing, by Lao Tzu This quote highlights that while any goal or project may seem overwhelming, it can be broken down into smaller goals. Most importantly, we gain momentum from taking a single step.

Taoism

“By conquering your mind, you can conquer the world.” — Guru Nanak We see what we think. Train your mind to be positive. Saying positive affirmations can help reduce stress and create a positive outlook in life.

Sikhism

History has been dominated by religious conflicts. War, terrorism, racism — all based on differing beliefs and ideologies. However, I believe there is a lot to learn from different religions for each…

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Mindfulness

A Study of Religions Around the World and Lessons Learned

This is also known as EQ. It is less popular than “fluid or crystallized” intelligence or IQ, which is estimated to determine roughly 20 percent of a person’s success in life.However, this doesn’t make EQ less important.A person who has a substantial EQ is very much relevant in today’s world, maybe even over one with a higher IQ.Whoever made us structured the human brain to function in a way that makes us make impressively stupid decisions. That you are an emotional wreck is normal. You don’t need to freak out.Here are ten ways to know if you are emotionally intelligent:

What Is Emotional intelligence?

Someone who is emotionally intelligent knows that he/she is not a knower of all. These people don’t feel the need to over substantiate their points in an argument. They are careful listeners, and they know when it’s time to let go of a stance when it seems doubtful.

2. You Don’t Feel The Need To Always Be Right. 

To be emotionally intelligent means being skilled at taking no for an answer. They know that not everyone may agree with the way they think the universe should work; they sleep well at night knowing this.Someone does not smother their egos when a contradictory statement is made about them.

3. You Understand Consent. 

The words of others don’t easily sway emotionally intelligent people. They carefully weigh uncommon knowledge against their standards of reasoning before giving it a chance to influence them. Advertising gimmicks, or the alluring words of a suitor, do not easily fool them.

4. You Are Not Easily Swayed By Words. 

If Esther was emotionally intelligent, she wouldn’t have slammed her phone on the floor immediately after she found out Cynthia had more Instagram followers than she does.Now, Cynthia not only has to deal with a bruised ego but a bruised phone as well.Anger is not a bad thing. However, when mismanaged, it often leads to chaos.

5. You Are Unhurried To Anger

In responding to others in real-life situations, only few people have the patience to suppress the fury of their emotions. Postponing gratification prevents you from picking fights with unpleasant people, only to realize you were at fault

6. You Can Postpone Gratification. 

When you have a goal and you don’t plan for it; it’s merely a wish. Emotionally intelligent people are more likely to have the coordination to plan critically for the future, despite spur-of-the-moment distractions. They don’t do things because regular people are doing them. The only things they involve themselves in are those things they genuinely care about.

7. You Are A Realistic Goal-setter. 

Emotionally sound people know when they’ve made a blunder, and they sincerely apologize for it. However, many people lack this simple skill in today’s world.Parents have too much of an ego to spare to enable them to apologize for mistreating his/her kids. This is not a sign of high EQ.

8. You Know When And How To Apologize. 

“Who you speak so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying,” – Ralph Waldo Emerson.An emotionally intelligent person is very sensitive to social cues. They can easily notice strange behavior in a friend or partner without being told.It is also in their nature to connect to those who are in pain or are suffering.

9. You Have Empathy 

One key sign of an emotionally intelligent person is that he/she has great self-respect. They can stand up for themselves if someone treats them against their will. Emotionally intelligent people are also sensitive against threats to their sense of self and do well to guide themselves.

10. You Are Assertive Without Being Disrespectful. 

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Emotionally intelligent people are the contrary. They are skilled in selecting alternatives based on their principles. Also, if they make wrong choices, as everyone does at some point, they dare to live with their blunders.

1. You Consider Alternatives Before Taking Major Steps. 

Emotional intelligence:It also known as EQ. It is less popular than "fluid or crystallized" intelligence or IQ, which is estimated to determine roughly 20 percent of a person’s success in life.However, this doesn’t make EQ less important.A person who has a substantial EQ is very much relevant in today’s world, maybe even over one with…

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Communication

Understanding Emotional Intelligence: 10 ways to know whether you are emotionally intelligent.

"Life is essentially an endless loop problems. Solution to one problem is merely creation of another."

Oozing happiness all the time may not be a feasible option. This fast pace world is a bit overwhelming on our daily shedules, but we are still happy doing our things even if we can't bear a smile over our face. We feel fulfilled after completing our chores. This mode could be satisfying, toiling through the day, not thinking about happiness or sadness. That is what I mean by 'Art of not giving a f*ck'.

Toiling

1. Values can't control our bad values to follow.2. Don't believe that you know anything with certainty, for it keeps you from improving.3. Trying to leave a legacy might run your life. Trying to not give a f*ck about most of the things is that you'll be able to give one about what really matters most to you in life.

Important Lessons

Focus on things that you can control. See when people around you stay taking control of your life, you stop taking taking control of your little steps. Start taking small steps that you can control. They are intangible assets. With time they will compound which will make you shine among others. Choose values that you can control.<ul><li>As a matter of fact think hard of values like punctuality and popularity. Can you control them??</li><li>Can you control values like honesty and kindness??</li></ul>Provide comments...

Hold Values You Control

'When the cup is full nothing can be poured in it everything will be spilled over. So, to climb the ladder of knowledge you need to keep your cup empty.'Rejecting the idea that you know anything will open you up for factual knowledge, scientific methodology and conceptual knowledge. This helps arriving at better decisions.If you allow yourself a little doubt, you can disprove any limiting beliefs about yourself and others

Certainty Hampers Growth

Leaving a dent in the universe. Why?Why we all strive to leave a legacy. Most of us are ruining our lives trying to chase this dream. We need to share our universe with our loved ones. Help others. Make commune. Gather like minded people around you. Let alone the legacy take care of itself.The more we are driven to build a great body of work, the more we start chasing fame, working to much and focusing on future. What if, we start living in present enjoy our days while we a fully present here.

Don't Obsess About Leaving A Legacy

I pursued happiness like an addict pursues their next hit. I tried everything to try and be happy, but no matter what I tried, it didn’t make happy.In fact, the opposite happened, it made me miserable.I was pursuing happiness for the sake of it, there was no meaning behind my pursuit. I just wanted to be happy, but you can’t be happy simply by chasing it.I think the best way to describe happiness is from this quote by Eleanor Roosevelt."Happiness is not a goal... It's a by-product of a weak or lived life."

The Pursuit of Happiness makes you unhappy

#1 New York Times Bestseller Over 1 million copies sold In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people. For decades, we’ve been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F**k positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let’s be honest, shit is f**ked and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn’t sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is—a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is his antidote to the coddling, let’s-all-feel-good mindset that has infected American society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up. Manson makes the argument, backed both by academic research and well-timed poop jokes, that improving our lives hinges not on our ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but on learning to stomach lemons better. Human beings are flawed and limited—"not everybody can be extraordinary, there are winners and losers in society, and some of it is not fair or your fault." Manson advises us to get to know our limitations and accept them. Once we embrace our fears, faults, and uncertainties, once we stop running and avoiding and start confronting painful truths, we can begin to find the courage, perseverance, honesty, responsibility, curiosity, and forgiveness we seek. There are only so many things we can give a f**k about so we need to figure out which ones really matter, Manson makes clear. While money is nice, caring about what you do with your life is better, because true wealth is about experience. A much-needed grab-you-by-the-shoulders-and-look-you-in-the-eye moment of real-talk, filled with entertaining stories and profane, ruthless humor, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is a refreshing slap for a generation to help them lead contented, grounded lives.

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#1 New York Times BestsellerOver 10 million copies soldIn this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people.For decades, we’ve been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F**k positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let’s be honest, shit is f**ked and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn’t sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is—a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is his antidote to the coddling, let’s-all-feel-good mindset that has infected American society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up.Manson makes the argument, backed both by academic research and well-timed poop jokes, that improving our lives hinges not on our ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but on learning to stomach lemons better. Human beings are flawed and limited—"not everybody can be extraordinary, there are winners and losers in society, and some of it is not fair or your fault." Manson advises us to get to know our limitations and accept them. Once we embrace our fears, faults, and uncertainties, once we stop running and avoiding and start confronting painful truths, we can begin to find the courage, perseverance, honesty, responsibility, curiosity, and forgiveness we seek.There are only so many things we can give a f**k about so we need to figure out which ones really matter, Manson makes clear. While money is nice, caring about what you do with your life is better, because true wealth is about experience. A much-needed grab-you-by-the-shoulders-and-look-you-in-the-eye moment of real-talk, filled with entertaining stories and profane, ruthless humor, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is a refreshing slap for a generation to help them lead contented, grounded lives.

Mark Manson (born 1984) is a professional blogger, entrepreneur, and former dating coach. Since 2007, he's been helping people with their emotional and relationship problems. He has worked with thousands of people from over 30 different countries. He regularly writes and updates his blog at: www.markmanson.net

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Impostor Syndrome (also known as Impostorism,Impostor Phenomenon and Fraud Syndrome)is the overwhelming feeling that you don't deserve your success.You become convinced that you're not as intelligent,creative or talented as you may seem. And you suspect that your achievements are down to luck,good timing, or just being"in the right place at the right time.Impostor Syndrome can be linked to other areas of self-doubt, such as&nbsp;fear of success,fear of failure,or&nbsp;self-sabotage.But it's not simply about poor self-confidence or excessive humility.It involves a constant fear of exposure,

Imposter Syndrome

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Take the first step. Giving up is not easy, but holding on is definitely harder. Once you can convince yourself of that and bring yourself to accept that you need to expect hardships in pursuit of greatness, then you have taken your first step graciously. You wouldn't worry about reaching the fruits of the highest branches of a tree before planting the seed, would you?

From celebrated Lebanese-Canadian poet and speaker, Najwa Zebian, comes this revised and expanded edition of her debut collection. Mind Platter is a compilation of reflections on life as seen through the eyes of an educator, student, and human who experienced her early days in silence. It is written in the words of a woman who came from Lebanon to Canada at the age of sixteen and experienced what it was like to have fate push her to a place where she didn't belong. It is written in the voice of every person who has felt unheard, mistreated, misjudged, or unseen. The book contains over 200 one-page reflections on topics we encounter in our everyday lives: love, friendship, hurt, inspiration, respect, motivation, integrity, honesty, and more. Mind Platter is not about the words it contains, but what the reader makes of them. May this book give a voice to those who need one, be a crying shoulder for those who yearn for someone to listen, and inspire those who need a reminder of the power they have over their lives.

From celebrated Lebanese-Canadian poet and speaker, Najwa Zebian, comes this revised and expanded edition of her debut collection. Mind Platter is a compilation of reflections on life as seen through the eyes of an educator, student, and human who experienced her early days in silence. It is written in the words of a woman who came from Lebanon to Canada at the age of sixteen and experienced what it was like to have fate push her to a place where she didn't belong. It is written in the voice of every person who has felt unheard, mistreated, misjudged, or unseen. The book contains over 200 one-page reflections on topics we encounter in our everyday lives: love, friendship, hurt, inspiration, respect, motivation, integrity, honesty, and more. Mind Platter is not about the words it contains, but what the reader makes of them. May this book give a voice to those who need one, be a crying shoulder for those who yearn for someone to listen, and inspire those who need a reminder of the power they have over their lives.

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Mind Platter

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