2017
In a remote Zambian community a girl is denounced as a witch and sent on a trajectory of exploitation, as a tethered member of a witches' camp, a witch for hire and a tourist exhibit.
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CLEAR ALL
We’ll be better prepared for life’s challenges if we cultivate these 12 inner strengths.
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During the global pandemic and racialized unrest, we all need pathways to calm, clarity and openheartedness. While it’s natural to feel fear during times of great collective crises, our challenge is that fear easily takes over our lives.
Author Linda Graham, M.F.T talks about her book BOUNCING BACK and how we can rewire our brains for maximum resilience and well-being.
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A talk based on Dr. Hanson’s book “Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness.” Learn how to develop key inner strengths—like grit, gratitude, and compassion—to stay calm, confident, and happy no matter what life throws at you.
The best-selling author of Buddha's Brain explains how we can boost our positive emotions and positive experiences.
In this soothing interview, Dr. Rick Hanson discusses his book, “Resilient,” and the amazing neuroscience that will help you build inner strength to face all life’s challenges.
How to Overcome the Brain’s Negativity Bias.
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Resilience is the ability to face and handle life’s challenges, whether everyday disappointments or extraordinary disasters. While resilience is innate in the brain, over time we learn unhelpful patterns, which then become fixed in our neural circuitry.
Why is it easier to ruminate over hurt feelings than it is to bask in the warmth of being appreciated? Because your brain evolved to learn quickly from bad experiences and slowly from good ones, but you can change this.
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.
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