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Social Support a key to Resilience
I am so excited to share this important principle with you. To be a resilient person, an individual who is moving forward with their lives is connected. Recently I was tasked to write, produce and lead a webinar...
Integrity is the Key to Resilience
I am glad that you are making a choice to read by blog, my hope is to enrich your life by some of the lessons that I have learned along the way. In the first piece on resilience, we talked about the top 6...
A First for Father’s Day!
This will be the first Father’s Day that we will not be able to talk. He left this earth just a few weeks after my momma passed away. My Dad, J.H. (Howdy) Thurman died on January 11, 2017. Being the first born to my...
Use Active Optimism to Push Back Fear & Doubt!
What makes people move through tough times? In my last post, I talked about resilience and its importance in being an overcome in life. Resilient, tenacious people make things happen. My friend and mentor, Dr. George...
Holy Week 2017
Holy Week 2017 is here, and what a start. As I am writing, the networks are sharing a breaking news story about two attacks on two Egyptian Coptic churches on this Palm Sunday. ISIS (Daesh) is taking credit for the...
Want to Get Ahead?
Recently I attended my first roller derby game in Albuquerque, and was I surprised. My memories of roller derby were from the 70's and 80's with the indoor tracks and a bunch of tough looking ladies were put to rest as...
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