The editorial staff here at Conversational is delighted to bring you the Style Issue this month, and we thought we’d kick it off with one of our favorite topics: beauty products. To know us personally is to know how very different each of us is. We share common ground, but we always have unique opinions, differing personal goals, and truly unique senses of style…
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I love shoes. I love having access to a variety of shoes. The end.
Note to reader: if you are triggered by pictures of feet, God help you — and go read something else.
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As I write this, my husband, Lee, and I will be celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary. We got married on a stormy spring day and we have a wedding photo of Lee carrying an umbrella over my head to protect my hair, dress, shoes, and makeup from the raindrops…
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Jena Dunham sat down with music therapist Sally Ann Nichols, MM, MT-BC, to talk about her practice — and gather a few ideas for how we can all soothe our souls with some smooth tunes.
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I’m hella depressed, if you don’t mind me using a clinical term. This isn’t a revelation – I’ve been depressed before, and then I wasn’t, and now I am again. “Depressed” is actually the perfect word for it, if you think about it etymologically. A state of being pressed down… like a button under a thumb…
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On January 11, 2017, I was diagnosed with stage 3a breast cancer at age 29. Life as I knew it would never be the same. I had to change everything from my eating habits to the people who surrounded me. It was bad enough that toxicity reached its way into my body…
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Two women take on one subject. This month: how introverts and extroverts take care of self-care.
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This fascinating book tells Alicia Keys’ story — in her own words. She became famous for her singing and songwriting while still in her middle teenage years, and somehow never succumbed to the stress of success that so many people who find the limelight at an early age do.
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Am I the only one having all the feelings — all in the same day some days? They say it’s important to give yourself permission to feel all the feels, but that feels like a lot…
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Feeling the worry and stress more than ever right now, I did what I often do when I’m trying to get a handle on something: I turned to books. And that’s when I found Kate Rope.
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