Find Another Idea Learn No one likes to fail. Let’s face it. But as they say, if at once you don’t succeed, try try, again. That is how you transform failure into a valuable lesson learned and into a success. For the only true way one fails, is if one...
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The New School Bully; It’s Not Who You Think by Cindy Hogan
There is a new bully in town and it’s not who you think. Our schools have been fighting the good fight for a while now with positive results, but bullying still happens. We hear it in the news all the time about some mean kid launching an attack on a peer and making...
Healing with Acronyms: GRIEF
Gratitude Remembrance Inspiration Eulogize Forever I had intended to write this week about a lighter topic and word—DORK. Unfortunately the reality inherent to the experience and the word itself, grief, struck fast and furiously. And as is often the case...
Anger–A Daughter’s Rage at Alzheimer’s by P.J. McIlvaine
We were sitting in a restaurant--me, my mother, and the jerk who eventually became her second husband (he was also the creep who tried to molest me under the guise of fatherly pretense). He went on and on about how much he loved my mother, that my brother and I had...
Healing with Acronyms: CRY
Comply Release Yield We know the rules. They've been drummed into our heads since before we could speak the word internet, let alone navigate it, and the repercussions of those words have pounded in our brains ever since every time we've felt the urge....
The Hero Within–A Journey Toward Happiness by Jenny Ngo
PARADIGM: Stuck in a Habit When I was young life was difficult, or rather I was resistant to it. You always hear people say "I wish I knew then what I know now" and boy doesn't that ring true for me. I knew nothing of the concept of allowing or being in the flow. I...
Healing with Acronyms: EGO
Express Genuineness Outwardly Ego—that three-letter four-letter word. Everyone’s got one. Yet everyone complains about everyone else’s. Ego as of late has gotten a bad rap. It has become synonymous with arrogance and a self-inflated sense of one’s value and...
Too Wired in a Wireless Society? Recharge Your Spirit
Let’s face it, whether we like or not, we live in a wired world. Or should I say wireless? Not sure about you but when my computer is on the fritz, or the cable goes out—I know who even uses cable anymore?—or if I don’t have enough bars to make the call let alone...
Healing with Acronyms: STUPID
Send Tenderness Understanding Patience Inclusion Daily “Stupid is as stupid does.” One of the most memorable trademark lines from FORREST GUMP, it elicits laughter when said in context of the movie. And there is a gem to be found here as we all do stupid...
Finding The Super Hero Within by Johnno Zee
“There's no fear; Underdog is here!!!” Y’all remember Underdog? That shoe-shining beagle/basset hound mix with a penchant for rhymes who transformed himself into a superhero with the pop of a pill? And who could forget that loveable reporter Sweet Polly...