The amazing transformation that can happen when you don’t give up
I‘ve got it that you’re making decisions about your future and you have fears about whether you can move into the life you know you want. The amazing transformation of a guy who didn’t give up shows us that just because someone tells us we can’t or shouldn’t do something doesn’t mean we can’t do […]
Do what makes you happy and you will have the strength and courage to face unimaginable odds
This video is in Korean with English subtitles. I’ve included it because Sung-bong Choi’s story touches very deep places. Wikipedia gives this biographical sketch: Abandoned in an orphanage at the age of 3, Choi said that he ran away from the institution when he was 5 years old because of having been beaten often. He lived in […]
Finding the awesome in the awful
There’s an awesome in every awful. Beautiful and vivacious, 13-year old Rion Page is blind in one eye and has permanently damaged arms due to arthrogryposis multiplex congenita. Sometimes she gets really frustrated when she can’t do something she thinks she should be able to do. When she feels that frustration, she sings as a […]
When tigers come at night and tear your hope apart, dream the dream you dreamed anyway
The daughter of a miner and a typist, Susan Boyle developed a learning disability as a result of being briefly deprived of oxygen during her birth. Local children bullied her and called her “Simple Susan”. Knowing of her daughter’s love of singing, Susan’s mother urged her to audition for Britain’s Got Talent. Susan did and […]
Adultery: PTSD and the Betrayed Spouse
After the Affair Should I Stay or Go? Betrayed Spouses Often Experience Symptoms of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder By, Laurie S. Hall Vicky pulled the bottle of Viagra out of her husband Tom’s medicine cabinet. The recently dated prescription label on it said eight tablets. There were four pills in the bottle. “When I saw the […]