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Survivors are occasionally called to try to identify these items physically, but physical browsing is extremely difficult, an ineffective and painful process.
When I reflect on the issues of race, religion, identity, a lot of painful memories come to mind.
I can't imagine anything more powerful and more painful.
Brazil is also one of the world's largest consumers of drugs, and the War on Drugs has been especially painful here.
They're painful, they're expensive, and they're probably not good for your heart; it's a heavy metal.
At Zoobiquity conferences, participants learn how treating breast cancer in a tiger can help us better treat breast cancer in a kindergarten teacher; how understanding polycystic overies in a Holstein cow can help us better take care of a dance instructor with painful periods; and how better understanding the treatment of separation anxiety in a high-strung Sheltie can help an anxious young child struggling with his first days of school.
I didn't care for it; it was too painful.
My periods were heavy, they were long, and they were very painful.
Sex was very painful.
Dr. Brené Brown, a well-known shame researcher, defines shame as "the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that we are flawed, and therefore unworthy of love and belonging."
Based on this definition, here's how I'm defining money shame: "the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that we are flawed, and therefore unworthy of love and belonging, based on our bank account balances, our debts, our homes, our cars and our job titles."
In order to uncover the painful parts of your money story and your money history, you can't be numb.
Secondly, the participants were told before the study and reminded any time they raised a concern, that although the shocks were painful, they were not fatal and indeed caused no permanent damage whatsoever.
And in doing that, it helps us avoid the pitfalls of this painful world we live in.
Rejection is extremely painful.
It was so painful.
The fact that the laughter works, it gets him from a painful, embarrassing, difficult situation, into a funny situation, into what we're actually enjoying there, and I think that's a really interesting use, and it's actually happening all the time.
But if throughout history, infidelity has always been painful, today it is often traumatic, because it threatens our sense of self.
Even though seal-on-a-bedsheet flags are particularly painful and offensive to me, nothing can quite prepare you for one of the biggest train wrecks in vexillological history.
I barely did it, because I found it boring and painful, and as a result, it took me another six weeks to get better.
I mean, obviously when you have something all the way through your hand, it's kind of bad anyway, but in this case, sea urchins have a venom on them that, if you've ever tangled with them, you know that a sea urchin spine in you gives you horrible, painful inflammation.
All except for one spot, that stayed stiff and painful for weeks after the other things had gotten better.
Some mornings it was too painful for her to brush her teeth.
Today, if we have an operation or an accident, we're in the hospital for weeks, and often left with scars and painful side effects of our inability to regenerate or regrow healthy, uninjured organs.
The relationship between the African American community and the police is a painful one.
And number three: We must also make sure that truth and telling facts is painful.
We tried to inject chemicals into the knee spaces of animals to try to reverse cartilage degeneration, and to put a short summary on a very long and painful process, essentially it came to naught.
Once the drugs are in your bloodstream, they are carried throughout your body, and they go to painful areas just the same as normal ones.
She says, "Don't worry, this won't hurt a bit," and then gives you the most painful shot you've ever had.
In fact, researchers have found that people who like to eat spicy foods don't rate the burn any less painful than those who don't.
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