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How Do You Develop Your Social Conscience?

Reading Time: 6 minutes Here are a couple of simple steps you can take:

It is politician season. Ask them the hard questions about what their plans are for the special needs community. Educate yourself to know what the most pressing issues are and put it out there.
Don’t sidestep that person in the wheelchair. Look them in the eye. Smile. Say, “Hello, there, how are you?” Be friendly towards them. Notice your default response and change it to be more dignifying.
If you have a business, hire a person or persons with visible and known disabilities. Challenge yourself to create opportunities for this type of inclusivity.

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The Worlds Best Couple That Almost Never Happened

Reading Time: 4 minutes It might sound counter-intuitive for a relationship coach to say, but in the beginning stages of dating and relationships chances are high, you’re way better off to quit early and often. You’re way more likely to find the perfect partner if you’re willing to play catch and release until you find someone who can give you exactly what you’re looking for rather than hoping you will stay in it long enough to make someone change to fit your needs.

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Is Being Gay a Choice?

Reading Time: 2 minutes When love between two people happens, when all of those pieces fall in place, when two people find themselves blessed with the miracle of love, it is a miracle of fate, timing, and biology. It is figuratively, and maybe literally an act of god.and guess what, it’s always a choice, no matter who you are or who you love. To love another is always the highest choice.
Do people choose to be gay?

Who cares?

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A Woman You Should Know: How a Victim Became a Warrior – Interview with Courtney Weaver

Reading Time: 6 minutes There is something about Courtney Weaver that leaves you feeling both engaged and a little uncomfortable at times. She has a directness and intensity that can only come from surviving. Courtney has survived more times than anyone should have to. Courtney Weaver doesn’t dance around the truth, and that kind of directness is uncommon. She is on a mission, and she doesn’t have a lot of time for small talk.

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Despite What You See in the News – Life is Good.

Reading Time: 3 minutes Life is good because when we see bad leadership, we must hear our soul’s clarion call for good leadership. Beloveds, humans want good leadership. It is our birthright. I am grateful for #45 (whose name shall NEVER be muttered) because he brings out the collective shadow side of this country. The invisibility that racism yields, the greed capitalism exploits, the abuse of power that patriarchy unveils, and the nationalism that breeds ethnocentrism has forever been altered because he gave us this great gift by bringing it out in the open, forcing us to look at ourselves as well as the culture that we live in.

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How to Find that Really Great Guy

Reading Time: 4 minutes I’m not going to tell you how to spot or avoid a player or an abuser. I am going to say that if you want to attract a man who’s going to treat you like a partner and an equal, you’re going to need to look beyond the players and make your move with the guy who might not be making moves at all. That guy might be worth some risk. That guy will take more effort, especially initially.

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