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A Force for Change: Coping With Grief Through Activism and Advocacy

By Dakin Andone — 2017

When people are pushed into advocacy or social work as a result of a traumatic loss, part of the benefit for those affected is in keeping busy, but it’s also a way to memorialize their loved ones, explained Joanne Cacciatore, an associate research professor at Arizona State University who studies traumatic grief.

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Give Yourself Permission to Feel with Ashley Bernardi

What if you allowed yourself to truly FEEL? Whether it’s grief, despair, or anxiety, society will always find a way to label feelings as “messy.” But burying these emotions only leads to greater emotional upheaval.

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Authentic Power: Give Yourself Permission to Feel

WHAT IF YOU ALLOWED YOURSELF TO TRULY FEEL? Whether it’s grief, despair, or anxiety, society will always find a way to label feelings as “messy.” But burying these reactions only leads to greater emotional turmoil.

Ashley Bernardi

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How to Ask for Help Without Feeling Needy | Kati Morton

From a licensed therapist, here are five tips to help you when you need to ask others for help—whether it be from friends, family, or a health professional—and you don’t want to feel needy while doing so.

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108 – Matthew McConaughey Explains How to Become More Involved in Your Own Life

You’ve likely seen Matthew McConaughey in one of his movies, like Dazed and Confused, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, or A Time to Kill. In this episode, he talks about his book Greenlights.

The Verywell Mind Podcast With Amy Morin

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The Gift and Power of Emotional Courage - Susan David

Psychologist Susan David shares how the way we deal with our emotions shapes everything that matters: our actions, careers, relationships, health and happiness.

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Opening Up by Writing It Down, Third Edition: How Expressive Writing Improves Health and Eases Emotional Pain

Expressing painful emotions is hard--yet it can actually improve our mental and physical health. This lucid, compassionate book has introduced tens of thousands of readers to expressive writing, a simple yet powerful self-help technique grounded in scientific research. Leading experts James W.

James W. Pennebaker, Joshua M. Smyth

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The Great Spring: Writing, Zen, and this Zigzag Life

Here, Natalie Goldberg, “a writer both energized and enlightened” (Julia Cameron), shares those vivid moments that have wakened her to new ways of being.

Natalie Goldberg

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The Power of Now Journal

Terms like groundbreaking and life-changing are often used to describe books, but not always accurately. They are when describing The Power of Now, which has become a genuine cultural phenomenon. Oprah Winfrey keeps it at her bedside and calls it “one of the most valuable books I’ve ever read.

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Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief

In unsettling and uncertain times, the individual and collective heartbreak that lives in our bodies and communities can feel insurmountable. Many of us have been conditioned by the dominant culture to not name, focus on, or wade through the difficulties of our lives.

Michelle Cassandra Johnson

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Practice You: A Journal

When the way forward seems uncertain, where can we turn for guidance we can trust? For yoga luminary, meditation teacher, and artist Elena Brower, the answer has always been close at hand. "Whenever I’ve needed direction, strength, or centering, I've so often turned to my own journals.

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