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	<title>Civic Studies &#187; Mental Health</title>
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		<title>Me Too</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/10/me-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2017 19:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I woke up this morning to a flood a #MeToo comments, as women from all spectra of my life stepped forward to share their personal stories of sexual abuse and harassment; stories of being silenced, of not being believed, of being told it was their fault, of normalizing the incessant stream of misogyny. It&#8217;s a [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/10/me-too/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Conceptions of Self</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2016/08/conceptions-of-self/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2016 21:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been writing a lot recently about two potentially conflicting views. On the one hand are scholars like John Dewey and&#160;Maurice Merleau-Ponty, who see the self as something largely or entirely created by others. As&#160;Merleau-Ponty writes, &#8220;I am a psychological and historical structure.&#8220; On the other hand is the modern yearning for &#8220;authentic&#8221; selves &#8211; [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2016/08/conceptions-of-self/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Authenticity and Social Selves</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2016/08/authenticity-and-social-selves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2016 18:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago, the New York Times ran an op-ed titled, Unless You&#8217;re Oprah, &#8216;Be Yourself&#8217; Is Terrible Advice. As author&#160;Adam Grant argues, our &#8220;authentic selves&#8221; would most likely do and say things that we &#8211; and everyone around us &#8211; would regret in the morning. Being true to yourself becomes&#160;rather ignoble if your [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2016/08/authenticity-and-social-selves/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Self-Skepticism</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2016/06/self-skepticism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2016 15:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have complained before about the common solution to the so-called &#8220;confidence gap&#8221; &#8211; that those with less confidence (typically women) should simply behave more like their confident (typically male) peers. There&#8217;s a whole, complex, gender dynamic to this conversation, but even putting that issue aside, I have a hard time accepting that the world [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2016/06/self-skepticism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Can You Become “A Morning Person”?</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2016/01/can-you-become-a-morning-person/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2016 22:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone asked me to write a post about becoming a morning person. Based, I suppose, on my expertise of frequently getting up in the morning. I was skeptical &#8211; can one actually become a morning person? What does that even mean? I suppose it&#8217;s no surprise that there are already countless articles on the subject [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2016/01/can-you-become-a-morning-person/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Does Anger Lead to the Dark Side?</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2016/01/does-anger-lead-to-the-dark-side/</link>
		<comments>http://sarahshugars.com/2016/01/does-anger-lead-to-the-dark-side/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2016 14:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anger is generally considered to be an &#8220;negative&#8221; emotion. It is often intense, powerful, and unpleasant for everyone around it. The emotion may have several negative health effects, and may be especially bad for your heart. Anger management resources&#160;are&#160;widespread. Because of the problematic nature of anger, that it is &#8220;such a forceful negative emotion and [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2016/01/does-anger-lead-to-the-dark-side/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Madness and Biotypes</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2015/12/madness-and-biotypes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2015 19:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an interesting article in the most recent issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry. The study, Identification of Distinct Psychosis Biotypes Using Brain-Based Biomarkers, uses bio-markers to identify&#160;&#8220;three neurobiologically distinct psychosis biotypes.&#8221; As the researchers explain, clinical diagnoses remain &#8220;the primary&#160;means for classifying psychoses despite considerable evidence&#160;that this method incompletely captures biologically meaningful&#160;differentiations.&#8221; The [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2015/12/madness-and-biotypes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Hollow Men</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2015/12/the-hollow-men/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2015 21:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1925, T.S. Eliot, already an established and respected poet, published The Hollow Men. It was a transitional time the author. Two years later, Eliot &#8211; who had been born to a prominent Missouri&#160;family and raised in the Unitarian church &#8211; would&#160;convert to&#160;Anglicanism and take British citizenship. A conversion which is reflected in his 1930 [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2015/12/the-hollow-men/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Civic Voice and Civic Duty</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2015/12/civic-voice-and-civic-duty/</link>
		<comments>http://sarahshugars.com/2015/12/civic-voice-and-civic-duty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2015 21:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, the&#160;Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) and the National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC) released research showing that Americans&#8217; volunteering rate remains strong. Over a quarter of U.S. adults volunteered through an organization last year, while nearly two thirds volunteered informally. This is welcome news, but also disconcerting: recent trends point to [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2015/12/civic-voice-and-civic-duty/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Flow</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2015/12/flow/</link>
		<comments>http://sarahshugars.com/2015/12/flow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2015 21:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In positive psychology, there is a concept called &#8220;flow&#8221; which was created by University of Chicago psychologist&#160;Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Flow is a state of deep focus, known colloquially as being &#8220;in the zone.&#8221; More precisely, Csikszentmihalyi identifies flow by asking, &#8220;Do you ever get involved in something so deeply that nothing else seems to matter and [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2015/12/flow/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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