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19th of July: Pull Day

As usual, starting with a warm-up, followed by the actual workout (5-4 sets of exercises like db back flies or alternating curls). After the session, I felt like doing something more, so I completed a dance workout (they'll never NOT be enjoyable) and finished with a cool-down. What did you do?

The warm-up: 8 Min. Full Body Warm Up | Dynamic Gym Warm Up & Mobility | Follow Along | No Equipment | No Repeats (youtube.com)

Back and biceps workout: TEMPO BACK AND BICEPS Workout - Dumbbells | Tempo Week Day 3 (youtube.com)

Dance workout: 10-Minute Latin-Inspired Dance Cardio Workout With Poofy Moffitino | POPSUGAR FITNESS (youtube.com)

Cool down: 5 Min. Upper Body Stretch | Cool Down After Workout | Quick & Easy | No Equipment (youtube.com)

Number of steps: 10189 :)

Things I expect every woman above 17 to know.

It is not characteristic of the truth to bend itself to fit perspective. When it does so it's called illusion. The truth is the truth, take it as it is because there isn't a single thing you can do about it. It is exactly what is it, that's that. Do what you can with it and let go. It is what it is ,it will not change because you do not like it.

It is characteristic of a social species to a) bully it's weak and b) ostracize it's different (or defected). If you show weakness you will be bullied, that's that. If you are different, you will be ostracized . It's that. Back to point 1. - it is what it is. Take the truth and do something with it, as is. You can not change it.

The only thing people respect in women is beauty and power. That's it. Your brains only count when you're already rich and pretty. Your character only counts as a bonus to your looks and bank. Money. Beauty. These - then a bonus of intelligence because what's a pretty face with no brains. A pretty face can get ahead no brains like Marylin Monroe projected but a beautiful brain with no beauty will get walked over like that one nerd id in class that's painfully smart and kind and intelligent but still gets bullied and walked over. It is what it is. Take it and do with it what you can. A woman's power is her beauty and money (& intelligence. There's a reason we evolved to be smarter than them. With no brains you can get around but will be used left right center). When you level up, you start with making a crazy ton of money and being pretty. Then people will care.

Systems are innately unfair because people have different needs and it is impossible to serve everyone at the same time. It's a flaw of personality - every system out there is inconveniencing someone. Learn this now. When you still can. On the same not- there is no such thing as freedom or fairness because we have to deal with other people and one will ALWAYS have the upper hand and more power- because it is the characteristic of a social species to be hierarchical in nature. When you eat the rich someone else will replace them. When you abolish the patriarchy something else will replace it. Whoever made the rules we follow now had to change the ones that came before. A flaw of a progressive time- space reality.

It is better the devil you do not know than the angel you do. Familiarity breeds disrespect, the more time you spend with people the more disrespectful they get. Exhibit A- the family you grew up with. In conjunction with this it is important to remind you human beings are wired to assume everything they do not know as a threat- and for something to be a threat it has to be better and more powerful than you. Which is to say people that you are not familiar with automatically assume you are better than them and powerful and all that, while people that are familiar with you have you boxed and are sticking to the version of you they have the most power over because it keeps them at ease and helps them coexist with you without the risk of having you as a threat.

Human beings are animals. A survival species that has survived by elimination of competition and tearing each other apart. Like a pack of wolves they (we) unite when faced by an outside threat only to tear each other apart in the absence of one. It's not a you thing it is an animal thing. Under pressure people break . Understanding this will free you from most of your trauma, trust me. It's not a you thing & it's a survival game. You also turn into an animal under enough pressure do not act holy. Free yourself of the self centered narcissistic idea that they did it to you because you are you. They did it because we are animals and this is how we are. Let it go, it wasn't a you thing. Why drag it around. Also, it's a survival game. Learn to play it.

It is a characteristic of a social species to depend on each other for survival. No man is an island. Sigma female is just trauma announcing it's existence and going ghost is counterproductive and false, it will never work. You need people. Social skills >>>> literally every single thing out there and social politics is survival politics.

Do with this what you must.

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Inspirational Social media pages to follow ✨💕

General

Twitter/X : Women posting wins 🏆🥇

Instagram: Women posting wins 🏆🥇

Instagram: Girls who Study 👩‍💻📚

TikTok: study.network 📚📖

Instagram: grad girl boss 🎓✨

Instagram: the graduate club

Instagram: smart girls winning 🥇 🎀🧠

Tech and STEM: 🧪👩‍💻

Instagram: She Codes 💻👩‍💻

Instagram: Baddies in tech 💻📱

Instagram: Women in Tech 💻📱

TikTok: thehotstemgirl 🧬🧪🥼

For nurses 👩‍⚕️

Instagram: The nurse power network 👩🏽‍⚕️

Instagram: the nurse brat 👩🏾‍⚕️💕

Instagram: the nurse enthusiast 🩺

For women of color in different specialties 👩🏾 👩🏽👩🏿

Instagram: Indigenous women in Tech 💻

Instagram: Black girls graduate 👩🏾‍🎓

Instagram: Black Women PHD’s 📜

Instagram: Black girl white coat 🥼

Instagram: black women in medicine 💊

Instagram: Black nurses killing it 🩺

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Instagram: Latina’s with Masters 📜

Instagram: Latina’s in STEM 🧬🧮

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For educators: 👩‍🏫

Instagram: Teachers who slay ✨

For lawyers: 👩‍⚖️

Instagram: lawyer bae⚖️💋

Instagram: lawyer girl global ⚖️🌍

Instagram: lady lawyer league 👩‍⚕️

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For business women and entrepreneurs 👩‍💼

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UMMMM GIRLIES you do realise that you can be MORE THAN 1 thing right???

If you wanted, you could become an astronaut AND a fashion model. You could be a a fashion designer, teacher, writer, content creator, actress, scientist, dancer, singer, a cook, an entrepreneur, a lawyer, etc etc!! Who ever said that you could only be one thing??

GIRLS. BARBIE DID THIS AND WAY MORE, WHY CANT YOU? (And she still manages to do it so glamorously!)

𝒥𝓊𝒹𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝐿𝑒𝒾𝒷𝑒𝓇 𝒾𝒸𝑒 𝒸𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓂 𝒸𝓁𝓊𝓉𝒸𝒽𝑒𝓈

workout schedule: July 15 - July 21

* this is my first week getting back into working out regularly after gaining some weight, so the goal for this week is to jumpstart my weight loss while maintaining a schedule that i can stay consistent with!

monday: 30 minute hiit + abs + 10 minute yoga cooldown

tuesday: 30 minute full body sculpt + 20 minute yoga

wednesday: 15 minute cardio + 25 minute lower body + 15 minute leg stretch

thursday: 30 minute full body strength & cardio + 20 minute stretch

friday: 35 minute glutes & abs + 20 minute stretch

saturday: 1 hour pilates

sunday: 25 minute active mobility & stretching

Sucess stories 🩷✨

“What I've learned from women who are totally killing it”

Part 1

🐚 The whole ‘be kind cause it's free’ is a lie. To become kind requires compassion for the world. Humans who are kind are the bravest humans to exist. So be kind and let your kindness have no motive.

🐚 Let go of all the past situations and people who aren't serving you anymore. It all happened for a reason, trust the higher power.

🐚 The moment you let go, magic begins. Try it yourself!

🐚 Take your studies seriously and do it with discipline. Knowledge is power.

🐚 Self love is not selfish instead it's the most selfless thing to do.

🐚 Develop a strong relationship with God/Universe.

🐚 Leave the victim mindset right now. It won't lead you anywhere & you'll end up questioning why all the bad things happened to you.

🐚 The moment you actually leave the victim mindset you'll immediately enter your lucky girl era.

🐚 Don't feel shy, guilty, bad, scared to ask for help. Remember help will be given to those who'll ask for it.

🐚 Use silk pillowcase. It is going to be so benefitting for your skin and hair. They'll thank you!

🐚 Read newspaper/news headlines. Be aware about what's happening in the world.

🐚 Being financially independent is a necessity. You don't want to feel guilty for every purchase, do you?

Secrets to the Arabian Princess Scent 💐🧴🪷

So with Arab perfumes becoming popular in the West due to their strong projection and beautiful smell, and the Arab world becoming known for our knowledge on how to smell good af, I (a half Moroccan) am going to reveal some other ways we ensure we smell amazing to the girlies on Tumblr who are interested in Arab perfumes or just in generally smelling amazing 😍 Most tips are Moroccan but many apply to the Arab world in general (under the cut because this turned into a long post) ✨💞💐

1) Good Eating Habits: When my mother moved here to Europe, she was immediately struck by how the people seemed to smell like "pig." And that's no coincidence. You are what you eat, so coming from a country where nobody eats pig to one where everyone eats it, of course you're going to be struck by people smelling like it from the inside out. Not just that, but in the Arab world, it's also way less common for people to eat takeout and drink alcohol, whereas in many parts of the West, these things are a normal part of many people's diets and affects their natural scent. A lot of Arabs have also talked about how Westerners smell like "milk," and this is because Westerners tend to consume more dairy products than people in the East do. It's also common for Arabs to eat fruit as dessert instead of having cakes or cookies all the time (although speaking of cookies and cakes, the scents of rosewater, orange blossom water, almonds, honey, vanilla, oranges and lemons commonly used in Arab baking fill up the house with a wonderful smell while they're baking). Teas made from various herbal infusions are popular throughout the Arab world. Spearmint, peppermint, sage, cardamom, cinnamon, hibiscus, chamomile, anise, and thyme are commonly used to flavor tea in MENA. Dried lime tea is drunk in the Arabian Peninsula. Coffee flavoured with cardamom is also common. I especially like Turkish coffee. Spices like cinnamon, cardamom, and cloves are commonly used in cooking, and the scent of them can cling to your clothes and hair. Herbs like mint and parsley, which have natural deodorising properties, are often used in meals.

I'm not saying that you need to cut any foods out in order to smell good, but you should consider reducing the amounts of unhealthy foods and red meats you eat, and make sure to drink plenty of water and eat veggies and fruit daily.

2) Keeping a Clean House: Here in Ireland, a lot of people don't clean their houses every day. I know multiple people that only clean their floor once a week, and have a couple of neighbours who don't do much cleaning themselves and just have a housekeeper visit to clean once a week. But in Morocco, people clean daily. The home is also deep cleaned once a week, we even wash the walls. We don't wear shoes inside, and not just that, but we also have different slippers specifically for wearing inside the bathroom. Living in a clean space is important for smelling good, because no matter what you do, you'll always end up smelling like wherever you live due to spending so much time there. The scent will cling to your clothes and hair. Which means if your house smells dirty, you will also smell dirty.

As well as making sure the house is clean, Arabs also make it smell pretty with extras. For example, in Morocco it's common to burn incense or bakhour (perfumed wood chips), and the scent permeates your clothes. People also keep pieces of musk in their wardrobes (wrapped in a handkerchief). It come in scents like orange blossom, jasmine, amber, sandalwood, chamomile and lavender. An unused bar of soap or a sachet of potpourri in your wardrobe will do the same job though if you can't or don't want to buy musk. The musk can also be used as a scented wax melt, a home scent (you just leave it in a bowl), a body perfume (rub it on your skin), a hair perfume (rub on your palms and run through the hair), or to scent bathwater. Solid perfume made from natural ingredients has the same effect. I like Lush Rose Jam solid perfume, as it smells like sweet roses and Turkish delight, and a little goes a long way.

Specific to Marrakech, you can buy jasmine balls which you just leave around the house (if you're not in Marrakech, you can just leave potpourri or dried flowers and herbs in sachets on your desk, bedside table, etc). The Marrakech herbal shops also sell sandalwood bark which you burn. Oud and amber are also burned. Herbs like lavender are sprinkled under carpets and rugs so the scent rises as they're stepped on.

3) Personal Hygiene: In the Arab world, people shower daily. In Morocco, we also go to the hammam (public bath) once a week, and we sit in the sauna room, and then rub our bodies with sabon beldi (black soap), a natural soap made from olive oil and black olives, leaving it on for a few minutes before rinsing it off. Then we scrub our skin with a kessa glove after it's marinated. Exfoliating dead skin regularly makes perfume cling to you better (if you order Korean bath towels from Amazon, they're very similar to Moroccan kessa gloves and you use them in a similar way). Then after washing our hair, we use a ghassoul clay mask (some people also rub henna into their skin). After washing the clay off, many people rub rosewater or argan oil into their skin before heading to the relaxation area to enjoy refreshments. As well as helping us smell good, it also makes our skin incomparably soft. When my parents were newlyweds, my father remarked on how he'd never felt a woman with such soft skin in his life before. My mother attributes it to regularly using the hammams before moving here.

Obviously not everyone has access to a hammam, but you can create a similar experience at home. Just sit in a steamy hot shower for 10-15 minutes, wash your skin with a natural soap and leave it on for a few minutes before rinsing off and exfoliating with a glove. Then tone with rosewater and apply oil to your body.

Dukhan treatments (smoke baths) are practiced in Sudan. Married women and brides anoint themselves with oil, before sitting over a chair with a hole in the centre. Under the seat, there is a pit, in which acacia wood, frankincense, or other aromatic woods and resins are burned in a clay vessel.

As well as showering daily (and using the hammam regularly if you're Maghrebi), many people in the Arab world also perform wudu (ritual cleansing) five times a day before praying.

Women commonly apply Musk Al Tahara (white musk), an attar that smells like vanilla, flowers and soft musk on the external parts of their vulva after periods.

Alum was commonly used as a natural deodorant in the Arab world in the past, and some still use it today.

Bidets are also common in the Arab world. In the Anglosphere they're uncommon, but it's easy to get a portable bidet (a small squeezable bottle with a nozzle) online.

We also wash our hands before meals, with a pitcher of water which is passed around the room. In Turkey, they use kolonya, made from fig blossoms, jasmine, rose, or citrus to disinfect their hands. In Morocco, it's common for women to scent their hands with rosewater or orange blossom water after meals.

4) Fragrances, Lotions and Potions: In the Arab world, perfumes are incredible. They're oil-based, so they have excellent projection and longevity. The olfactory notes commonly used in them are beautiful too: delicate rosewater and orange blossom water, exotic oud, sweet amber, vibrant roses and jasmine. In Morocco, gardenia scents are popular, even among men.

Emirati perfumes are the most well known in the West and are super good. Some personal favourites of mine include Oud Mood by Lattafa (Caramel, rose, saffron, and oud), Fatima Pink by Zimaya (Sweet rose that smells like a bit like Turkish delight. it's a dupe of the French Parfums De Marly Delina, however, the actual Delina smells very similar to generic rose oil perfumes you can get in the Arab world to begin with so Zimaya was basically able to dupe it to a T. Their version lasts really long too), Ameerat Al Arab by Lattafa (jasmine, a hint of oud, slightly citrusy. Also the name means "Arabian Princess" in English), Fakhar Rose by Lattafa (sweet, fruity, and very floral) and Yara by Lattafa (floral, amber, vanilla and strawberry). I buy my perfumes from Dubai Perfume Shop in Dublin, but they can be easily found online. Some well-known Arab perfume houses include Lattafa, Al Rehab, Zimaya, Al Qurashi, Amouage, Afnan, Ajmal, Asdaaf, Al Haramain, Armaf, Kayali, Maison Alhambra, and Swiss Arabian, but there are hundreds more.

As well as sprayable perfume, perfume oil is also used. It usually comes in rollerballs or small containers, is inexpensive, and lasts for ages. Like spray perfume, it comes in a huge variety of scents. You can also put it in diffusers or add some to cotton balls and leave in your wardrobe to scent clothes and linens.

Arabs know when to wear perfumes. For example, a rich, sweet, strong oud and vanilla scent will be beautiful in colder weather. But in warm weather, it will become cloying and sickly. Musk, amber and saffron are popular in winter, while rose, orange blossom and jasmine are popular in summer.

In the Arab world, many stalls in the Medina sell gorgeous oils, fragrances and soaps that are inexpensive. For example, the musk I mentioned above. As well as making your home smell incredible, you can also rub it on your body and you'll smell good for days.

Rosewater is commonly used as a toner and to remove makeup. In the town of Skoura, where my great grandparents were from, men even use it to shave with! Orange blossom water is also used in Arab beauty routines in a similar way to rosewater. You can apply either to a bath for extra luxury.

Argan oil is commonly used in Morocco on both skin and hair, as well as the less well-known but just as good prickly pear oil (which is very high in vitamin E). Pure argan oil actually smells a bit stinky fyi, but for beauty, things like rose oil and menthol are commonly added, so it smells pretty good. Throughout the Middle East and North Africa, jasmine hair oil, castor oil and sweet almond oil (I like putting it in my baths and on my body) are easy to find. Usually Middle Eastern and South Asian shops in the West sell them too.

Honey and almond masks have been used since ancient times, and to this day are still popular. You can buy them basically anywhere. Homemade face masks made from honey and yoghurt or crushed figs and yoghurt are also used.

Aloe Vera is used to treat dry skin, acne, and sunburns. It has a cool and refreshing scent, perfect for the hot climate in many parts of the Arabian world. I like applying it after shaving as it's soothing, natural, and absorbs easily.

Frankincense, a resin used in the Middle East and North Africa for thousands of years, was traditionally used as a natural perfume. It's commonly used in incense. Frankincense oil is also good for the skin.

There are many beautiful scented soaps available in the Arab world. If you go to Turkish or Arab supermarkets, a lot of them will have a section where they sell hygiene products, including soaps with ingredients like argan, rose and oud, and olive oil. I've even found Syrian Aleppo soap before. You can just buy soaps from regular stores in scents like rose, jasmine, honey and almond, orange blossom and sandalwood for achieving that exotic scent though.

As well as using various oils, perfumes, and fragrant beauty treatments, Arab women also know how to layer these different scents to add dimension to them and avoid clashing. For example, a rose perfume over a vanilla lotion will always smell good. Other combinations that are good include almond and vanilla, rose and oud, rose and jasmine, lavender and lemon, rose and orange blossom, and orange blossom and vanilla. But there are many different combinations you can use to achieve a delicious scent that's unique to you.

I hope this was helpful, stay pretty ✨

The amount of times I have heard how "love is not like a fairy tale". It made me realize how deeply disconnected this world is from love and romance. I dare to believe that we all deserve (both women as men) beautifully handwritten notes, romantic dates, extravagant yet raw love confessions, over the top love gestures, sensual sex, honesty, full appreciation, deep intimacy and conversations. We all deserve to experience a memorable, romantic fairy tale love. People criticize romcoms, fairy tales, love poetry, love songs yet we still continue to consume love related content. This makes me think that the collective has still a long way to go in terms of healing, I am deeply persuaded the world deeply needs pure, divine love yet has so much trauma around love.

Heal yourself from that spell and believe you deserve more than just a text every now and then, basic sex, and low quality appreciation.