How to stop obsessing over embarrassing and awkward experiences. People share what works.

Replaying your worst moments over and over in your head? Try this.

By Jacalyn Wetzel

No one enjoys being embarrassed. The room suddenly feels like the surface of the sun, your heart rate increases, and you get sweaty at the worst possible moment. Usually, the event that caused embarrassment is brief. Other people may not even be aware that you're feeling differently, but some people's brains like to torture them with vivid replays of the very thing they'd like to forget.

When your brain is acting like your worst enemy by replaying events obsessively, some things can be done to break the loop. A relationship and dating expert who goes by Ask Kimberly on TikTok lists three things she tells her clients to do if they have an embarrassing moment. The advice is meant to help you quickly overcome the cringe, thereby avoiding the embarrassment loop altogether, while regular non-experts share what works for them. Grab a pen and take notes, because this just may help change your habits.

🦃 8 Depression-era Thanksgiving meal ideas that still hold up today

Depression-era Thanksgivings did not suffer on flavor.

By Heather Wake

Thanksgiving is right around the corner, and in a year when grocery prices feel like a jump-scare every time we glance at a receipt, many are looking for ways to celebrate without blowing the budget. Luckily, this isn’t the first time Americans have had to get creative in the kitchen.

During the Great Depression, families all over the country still hosted Thanksgiving dinners, often with barely anything in the pantry. Yet what they managed to whip up wasn’t dreary or depressing. Quite the opposite. These resourceful dishes would be just as flavorful and comforting today as they were decades ago.

Here are some Depression-era dishes and tricks that still deserve a spot on a modern Thanksgiving table.

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🤝 Man shares issues and policies conservatives and liberals agree on and it's giving hope

Maybe our elected representatives should work on implementing these things.

By Annie Reneau

If you were to ask the average American in 2025 whether the United States felt more united or divided, there's no question the vast majority would say divided. That doesn't mean that we should be or want to be, but the sense of polarization and division is palpable, the partisan divide feels insurmountable, and many Americans are struggling to find hope in reaching common ground.

But in reality, there is a lot more common ground than we might think. Yes, there are real and important issues that people disagree vehemently on, and those can't be ignored. But there are some things we actually do agree on that we don't hear much about.

👩‍🍼 Desperate mom of 9 gives herself an emergency C-section, saving both of their lives

She told her kids to get help before passing out.

By Jacalyn Wetzel

Bringing life into the world isn't always as joyous as the media portrays. Several parents come through childbirth with physical, mental, and emotional trauma. But even among the most traumatic deliveries, the birth story of Inés Ramíez, a mother of nine in Mexico, likely catapults to the top of the list of the world's most traumatic births.

The International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics reveals in a case report originally published in December 2003, that a 40-year-old mother of nine gave herself an emergency cesarean section and lived to tell the tale. This wasn't a self-inflicted operation to test her fortitude and pain tolerance. This was an act of desperation, utilizing different areas of personal experience to guide her actions.