Where to Celebrate Valentine’s Day in New Jersey

This year, Valentine’s Day falls on a Friday which can be viewed as both a blessing and a curse in the restaurant world. It’s time to get those plans solidified so you can enjoy dining out on some delicious (prix fixe) food with your S.O. What else is the holiday about? Here’s where to celebrate…

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Becoming Someone Worth Dating

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By Julianne Cantarella Before you can have a healthy relationship with a romantic partner, you must have one with yourself. You must see yourself as worthy. By conveying your worth through your behavior, it will be reflected and modeled, and in return, a partner will view you as such. First and foremost, Respect Yourself: If you do not respect…

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Meet #IRL This Summer

Summer is here and we all know what that means. The 2018 cuffing season has officially come to a close and relationships that once looked solid (“But Ashley, you just posted a picture of you guys apple picking two months ago.”) have dissolved faster than soft serve on the boardwalk. Now what? We can spend…

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Breaking the Current: Matt & Jessica Johnson

By Loannie Dao For most of their lives, Matt and Jessica Johnson led typical American lifestyles. Finishing college, starting a career, and buying a house were all in the cards for the two high school sweethearts. Not long after college, the couple found corporate type jobs — Matt in sales management and Jessica in the…

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The Practice of Mindfulness: How to begin a meditation practice

True happiness cannot be bought—this we know—but can it be taught? There is a millennia-old form of meditation that answers this question with a resounding yes. Mindfulness meditation proposes a simple, yet profoundly radical concept: that we live in the present moment and accept it for what it is. Many of us live our lives…

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