humanity
For better or for worse, relationships reveal the core of the human condition.
You Don't Do It Alone
YOU DON'T DO IT ALONE To my many mentors You don't do it alone, is a phrase that I constantly remind myself. When I look at myself, my company, my family, my friends, and at my life, and ask how? It all becomes obvious: I did not do any of it alone.
By Elijah Davis4 years ago in Humans
The Mental Health Stigma
As I sit in jail my anxiety and depression runs deep. My PTSD was triggered and brought on by writing my memoir. I don't trust law enforcement like I used too since my arrest. I used to think I could never get inflicted with a mental health issue. My mother suffers from bipolar disorder as does my son. But mental health issues do run in my family, my uncle was as strong as many men I knew, but after Vietnam he suffered with survivors guilt as well as PTSD.
By Lawrence Edward Hinchee4 years ago in Humans
I Will Remember Not to Forget
This year, to foster kindness, I’m going to remember not to forget myself. I’m going to remember my own battered and beaten soul and I’m going to indulge her in a healing process so rich and nurturing we will feel like a whole new woman. A woman loving herself so ferociously there’s love to spare, spilling out onto you and you and them.
By Tessa Dickinson4 years ago in Humans
The beginning
Before this beginning, there was an end. I guess that’s the way for most things; stories wax and wane, stop and start, fade and are reborn. For me, the end of the previous story was my stepping away from the NHS and my role there as a clinical psychologist. That was a whole different story that I’m not sure I’ll ever share in full. But the next part, the way out of the fog, the personal rebuilding, renovating, restoring took the form of creating something new, something energising, collaborative and connected. Along with a couple of trusted and much loved colleagues, I set up a social enterprise to allow us to work with people in the community who wanted to have healthier, happier, more connected relationships with others.
By Gemma Parker4 years ago in Humans
United Way Survey Is Quizzing America On DEI Terms
In honor of Black History Month, it’s important to educate ourselves on not only the past, but also moving forward. In light of events over the past few years, many people have started educating themselves on privilege, microaggressions, and other forms of internalized issues they may not have realized they were projecting.
By Pam Jannes4 years ago in Humans
I Don't have the courage to say NO
As a writer, I had written a proverb a few days back that says "IF YOU HAVE THE COURAGE TO SAY NO I SWEAR YOU FEEL BETTER ". I do agree with my quote because it's the fact that everyone does need to follow in life to feel better, but when I ask myself "hey beautiful soul are you following it in your daily life" to be honest my answer would be NO...
By Authors booklet4 years ago in Humans
My Short, Sweet Life as a Scuba Diver
I learned to scuba dive 26 years ago. I earned my open water certification in a dark Ontario quarry, without much to see except my instructor in front of me. My partner and I dove in the murky waters of Kingston and Windsor and other spots where we’d find sunken ships and very few fish.
By Catherine Kenwell4 years ago in Humans
Forget Single-Use Plastics, People are the New Disposable Commodity.
The Great Divide began in the Trump era with news outlets and late-night television picking apart everything the administration did, and we all pulled up our seats, grabbed our popcorn and laughed, clicked, shared and liked it. We were the majority, and we had no time to try to understand anyone that was "for" that type of behaviour. We shut it down. We blocked it. We refused to go there.
By Christina Hunter4 years ago in Humans
I’m Not High Functioning
My name is Angel and this is my autistic confession. I am not “high functioning.” Ever since I was first diagnosed with autism, I’ve been told by random people that I am high functioning. After five minutes of knowing me, they are ready to declare, “You must be so high functioning!”
By Angel Mann4 years ago in Humans
