By Katelyn Espenshade
Embodied practice creates the potential for a unifying perspective and it can inspire new ways for activists to participate in community outreach, sisterhood, and self-care.
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Urban decay can sap the determination—not to mention the soul—of anyone who experiences it. But there are forces that can and do reverse it. They are not spectators, or critics, or occasional demonstrators.
Over the past five years, I have had some INCREDIBLE opportunities to speak out and get my voice heard as a young person. I discuss my five top tips for being a youth activist that I wish I'd know when I started getting involved in youth voice.
How ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.
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It is the rise from falling that Brown takes as her subject in Rising Strong.
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From lemons to lemonade; from heartbreak to happiness; from victim to victorious.
These days it’s hard to count on the world outside. So, it’s vital to grow strengths inside like grit, gratitude, and compassion—the key to resilience, and to lasting well-being in a changing world. True resilience is much more than enduring terrible conditions.