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A wonderful reminder from Shel Silverstein to never let others limit your potential.

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Studying Abroad: Culture Shock

Five students from five different continents tell us how they adapted to a brand new culture when they first came to study abroad.

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How Telling Our Silenced Stories Can Change the World | Anne Hallward | TEDxDirigo

Shame is at the intersection of individual psychology healing and social change. Clinically, when we follow the path of our shame, we experience the greatest healing, and culturally, when we move past the power of shame we can act together to improve civil rights for all.

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97 – Learn Ways to Have a Better Conversation with Best-Selling Author Celeste Headlee

Celeste Headlee is a journalist, speaker, and co-host of Retro Report, a weekly series on PBS. Some of the things she talks about in this episode are how to hold difficult conversations with people, how to become better at making conversation, and how to deliver bad news effectively.

The Verywell Mind Podcast With Amy Morin

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Experiences with Cancer, Captured in Works of Art

The program Brushes with Cancer pairs patients with artists whose works make visible a disease that can be invisible and isolating.

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The Country Without a Post Office: Poems

“Translucent elegies ‘for the city that is leaving forever’ (Srinagar) from one of its sons, who also happens to be one of America’s finest younger poets.”―John Ashbery

Agha Shahid Ali

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4 Steps to Achieve a Sense of Belonging

Through the years, I have learned ways to manage these people-pleasing tendencies, and feel more like myself. Here are four tips — if you find yourself feeling lonely — to achieve a greater sense of belonging.

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Social Isolation’s High Physical and Psychological Toll

Studies of polar researchers, astronauts, and others in isolation shed light on possible effects of social distancing, including increased forgetfulness, depression and heart attacks.

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Letters to a Young Poet

At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering, and the nature of advice itself.

Rainer Maria Rilke, Charlie Louth (translator)

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Jumping Out of Bed

This is a collection of Taoist-inspired poems by Robert Bly exploring the joys of solitude, the interdependence of all life, and the delights of being rather than striving. His poems are interwoven with woodcuts by Wang Hui-Ming, creating an attractive interplay of verbal and visual images.

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