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Adolescents, teens, and young adults are glued to their mobile devices twenty-four, seven. They text and Snap Chat, post to Instagram, YouTube, Messenger, Tumblr, Pinterest, Twitter, and Facebook. With all these opportunities to connect, how could a 16-year-old possibly be lonely? With world-wide access at their fingertips, how could an 18-year-old feel he didn’t belong? …
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Abraham Lincoln said, “We must extinguish our resentment if we expect harmony and union.” A line more than appropriate for today’s social, cultural, and political climate. Wikipedia defines resentment as: “A mixture of disappointment, anger, and fear. It comprises the three basic emotions of disgust, sadness, surprise and the perception of injustice.” Repetitively replaying hurt …
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In gyms, in parks, on tracks, and on sidewalks, they are walking, running, swimming, and working out. The mentally ill are no longer hid away in scary hospitals and terrifying institutions. They are taking advantage of recent research suggesting “lifestyle modifications” for the mentally ill – they are exercising. The NCBI a branch of the …
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A list is made, resources assembled, dates and times established. This year will be different; this time you will succeed. If you are in the 8%, perhaps. Science reports 92% of people don’t achieve their goals, see their visions fail, and live with unfulfilled dreams. Despite these numbers, people are sharing mission statements, implementing visions, …
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“Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove: O, No! It is an ever-fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken.” A beautiful passage from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 – love cannot be true …
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