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If you’ve ever felt unworthy — because of your weight, your job, your relationship or any other fill-in-the-blank reason — shame and vulnerability researcher Dr. Brené Brown has a message she wants you to hear loud and clear: There are no prerequisites for worthiness.

“Most of us think, ‘I’m pretty worthy of love and belonging — but I’d be super worthy of love and belonging if I could lose 15 pounds,'” Brown says in the above clip from “Oprah’s Lifeclass.” “‘[Or] I made partner. Or my wife doesn’t leave. Or I stay sober’ –- or whatever our thing is.”

In reality, none of that matters. “Worthiness is an as-is, here and now proposition,” she says. “And to me, that’s the definition of wholeheartedness. Wholeheartedness is about engaging with the world from a place of worthiness.”

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When John Stamos revealed on HuffPost Live back in June that he and Lori Loughlin had actually dated years ago and that she might be “the one that got away,” hearts everywhere exploded. Last Week, E! News caught up with Loughlin at the opening of the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills to get her response, and though diplomatic, it doesn’t disappoint.

“Oh my goodness. Well, we’ll never know, right? I will always love John, always,” Loughlin said. The 49-year-old actress is nowadays married to fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli with whom she has two daughters, notes the Los Angeles Times.

Both Loughlin and Stamos, who played Aunt Becky and Uncle Jesse on “Full House,” have addressed the issue of timing in their separate HuffPost Lives interviews. They had apparently gone on a couple dates when they were 18 or 19, per Stamos, but then Loughlin got married and by the time that relationship ended, Stamos had already gotten together with his now ex-wife Rebecca Romijn.

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The Nokia Lumia 2520 isn’t the only high-profile Windows tablet launching today. As promised, Microsoft has released the Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 in the US and 20 other countries at respective starting prices of $449 and $899. A handful of accessories are also available alongside the slates, …

We reported yesterday Microsoft pulled the Windows RT 8.1 update for all devices running on Windows RT 8 due to reports of the update bricking Surface RT tablets. As a result of this issue, Microsoft had to investigate what exactly the problem was, and it looks like they have found a solution to the issue as Windows RT 8.1 is available again on the Windows Store. (more…)

Microsoft Re-Releases Windows RT 8.1 Onto Windows Store original content from Ubergizmo.

In conjunction with the celebration of October as LGBT History Month, The Huffington Post will be providing you with “Know Your LGBT History” updates! Check back throughout the month for a brief overview of some of the landmark moments throughout the course of our journey as LGBT and queer-identifying individuals.

1986: According to Quist, United States Surgeon General C. Everett Koop released his first report on the AIDS epidemic in America, two years before mailing information about the disease out to every American household. He reportedly waited four years before speaking publicly about the disease on this date.

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