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LIFE: Tough Stuff

What you can do to help a friend with trichotillomania

Have you heard of trichotillomania? Also known as the "hair pulling disorder," it affects a lot of people: 1 or 2 in 50 individuals throughout their lifetimes, to be exact. What is it? This disorder is a part of the Body-Focused...
LIFE: Friends

Developing online friendships: yay or nay?

From Snapchatting to checking our Insta feeds to sending emails, it seems like we are *always* on our phones. And while your parents' or grandparents' generations may disapprove of your smartphone "addiction", there are some positive upsides of using the...

LIFE: Dear Carol

"I'm the only girl in my grade without a boyfriend!"

Dear Carol I'm the only girl in class who doesn’t have a boyfriend. One friend whines on weekends about how much she misses her guy, then says, “You wouldn’t know because you don’t have a BF." -Boyfriendless Dear Boyfriendless, Go through your school directory...
LIFE: Family

How your birth order affects your personality

Have you ever looked at your siblings and thought, “We are so different...how are we related?!” There may be a reason and it’s not what you think. Researchers have found that the order you were born plays a *huge* role...

LIFE: Get Inspired

I ditched social media for a week. Here's what happened

I love social media, but I wouldn’t say I’m more or less addicted than any typical teenage girl. My day doesn’t revolve around posting Instas, tweeting and snapping, but it is heavily affected by it. From the time I wake...
LIFE: Get Inspired

8 #oddlysatisfying videos you haven't seen before

Here at GLHQ, there are *quite* a few Instagram hashtags that we follow religiously. We'll forever be invested in the #ShawnMendes tag, and the skincare-obsessed among us check the #glowyskin tag on the reg. Then there's the #Beychella tag, which...

LIFE: Dear Carol

Easily intimidated? Here's how to be more confident

Dear Carol, I always think people don’t like me. I have no reason for thinking this – I just do. So I don’t talk to people and am easily intimidated by them. A friend recently called me on this bad quality...
LIFE: Dear Carol

"I love my dad... but I dread hanging with him"

Dear Carol, My parents are divorced. I live with my mom, and my dad lives three hours away. I see him once a month during the school year, more in the summer. I love my dad, but I never look forward...

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Welcome back to Gumbling, Nell Starkeeper’s extremely normal hometown (ya know, where magical creatures abound and secret wishes get granted). Here, pretty much anything can happen—which Nell’s about to discover on her squad’s wacky wilderness adventure. Enter to win here!

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