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1 week ago | 
yourtango.com | Christine Schoenwald
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1 week ago | 
yourtango.com | Christine Schoenwald
Everyone is beautiful in their own way, whether they want to believe it or not. Nobody needs men telling them what is and isn’t attractive to them, but as a woman, I can confirm that sometimes having the reassurance is a nice feeling. That is, when it's coming from a genuine place. While it would be great if people could recognize the beauty in everyone — and especially in themselves — it sadly doesn't always work that way.
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2 weeks ago | 
yourtango.com | Christine Schoenwald
You can learn a whole lot about a person just by looking at their face. Communicating face-to-face is a valuable tool for getting to know someone and/or deciding the best course of action when dealing with a problem relating to a partner or loved one. According to the ancient art of Chinese face reading, there tends to be a consistent set of characteristics belonging to people who have specific facial shapes.
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3 weeks ago | 
medium.com | Christine Schoenwald
Member-only storyFeaturedPARASOL PUBLICATIONSReading for performances, book events, and audio recordingsChristine Schoenwald·FollowPublished inParasol Publications·5 min read·--Photo by Product School on UnsplashPicture yourself all alone in front of a live audience. Is this image enough to make your temperature rise with anxiety? Now, add into the mix a personal essay or a passage from a book that you’re expected to read from. For some people, reading aloud to others is torture.
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1 month ago | 
yourtango.com | Christine Schoenwald
If you wait to have children a little later in life, you may increase your odds of surviving to unusually old age. The stress of having children may be the reason that you live longer if you wait. Women who give birth after age 33 often live until their nineties, according to research.
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1 month ago | 
yourtango.com | Christine Schoenwald
Everyone loves chocolate, and even though it's a guilty pleasure and we try to cut way back on sugar, there are times when we need it. It makes us feel better when we're feeling low. We love its deliciously rich taste, its texture, and how it makes everything better. Not only that, but chocolate can be good for us. It has plenty of benefits including lowering blood pressure, preventing liver damage, boosting good cholesterol, and keeping your heart healthy.
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1 month ago | 
yourtango.com | Christine Schoenwald
You want to help your children as much as possible, but are you over-helping them with everything? The best way for children to learn is to experience the process themselves, and they can't do that if a parent is constantly nagging them. The common Millennial parenting style of helicopter parenting does irreparable harm to kids, according to research.
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2 months ago | 
yourtango.com | Christine Schoenwald
If someone asked you to list all the truly charming people you knew, you probably could without any problems. Charm is the quality of attracting or fascinating others, and it's the ability to make other people like you. It's having charisma and being a genuine people person. To some, charm is old-fashioned — like being polite and having good manners — but anything that makes someone feel a bit better after an encounter is always something to be prized.
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2 months ago | 
yourtango.com | Christine Schoenwald
Whether you're fluent in it or not, body language is one of the ways that we communicate — and it can also reveal if someone's into you. If you can figure out what a person is telling you by the movements of their face, hands, torso, or even legs, you can get a better idea if you should pursue anything with them or move on. By studying someone's body language, you can become a kind of human lie detector.
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2 months ago | 
yourtango.com | Christine Schoenwald
Likability often starts with an initial impression, where people decide if you're worth spending any time and energy on within seconds. But is there a remedy for how to become a likable person? What can you do to make first impressions last and have people like you as quickly as possible? The book How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less, by speaker and author Nicholas Boothman, highlights how to become instantly appealing and engaging to someone you just met.
