By Drake Baer — 2017
A conversation with Frank Ostaseski, founder of the Zen Hospice Project.
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If we can process our regrets with tenderness and compassion, we can use these hard memories as a part of our wisdom bank.
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Understanding personal growth and how you can achieve it can help you use your skills efficiently in the workplace and advance professionally.
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Why personal development is so important and how to improve yourself.
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We’ve been taught to refer to people with disabilities using person-first language, but that might be doing more harm than good.
Studies of dying patients who seek a hastened death have shown that their reasons often go beyond physical ones like intractable pain or emotional ones like feeling hopeless.
“Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.” ~ Bruce Lee The premise of his philosophy was efficiency—complete and utter efficiency of the soul.
The ongoing dialogue I have with my own perspective and emotions is the biggest job I’ve ever undertaken. Exploring this internal give-and-take forces me to grow in surprising ways.
Often, disabled people have their disability treated, but they don’t have their emotional or spiritual needs addressed.
Depression and suicidal ideation are more likely among people with disabilities due to factors like abuse, isolation, and stressors related to poverty, among others.
Adults with disabilities report experiencing frequent mental distress almost 5 times as often as adults without disabilities.