Category: Empowerment

Beauty in the Face of Hardship: Shanti’s Miracle in Nepal

LIVEdammit was created to celebrate and share tools of resilience—the practices and insights that help our writers move through trauma, ...

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Why I Write

By Sarah VanBlarcom I feel like I have a secret, but I’m not quite sure what it is. All I ...

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From Survivor to Healer: The Journey of tree turtle

“Most of the people who start being abused as I was as an infant do not survive. Then there’s the ...

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Renaissance Woman: Rosanna Tufts on Resilience, Reinvention, and Thriving After 60

How do you turn a disability into an advantage in challenging times? Move past divorce, self-doubt, and a cancer journey, ...

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Navigating from Panic to Peace

Your chest is tight. A lump in your throat threatens to erupt into sobs. Your head is spinning; your heart ...

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The Scar and the Semicolon

I remember when I first heard about Project Semicolon—the brave passion project of a woman who knew the call of ...

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What if… (dare we ask?)

These questions have been haunting me for the past few days…with the sort of resonance that tells me they are ...

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What to Do When the World Feels Like Too Much

By Cynthia Greb How many of us here are very sensitive? Does your psyche get rattled by too much noise ...

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What To Do During the 11th Hour

I’ve been circling around this topic for months?…years?….decades?…and finally I think it’s time to square my shoulders and confront it, crazy ...

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The Other Side of Reality Bites

One of my favorite bumper stickers reads: Don’t Believe Everything You Think.  It’s one of my rules for living…most of the ...

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