planting saplings, Awesome Stories

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In honor of Valentine’s Day, Awesome Stories focuses on love this week. 21 Life Lessons Reading the intro to this article, I thought the advice might be irrelevant, but I was pleasantly surprised. The lessons invite us to look at life and relationship in new ways based on love, trust, patience, connection, and cooperation. These 21…

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This week Awesome Stories brings you joy, mystery, inspired leadership, and owls. Reclaim Your Joy This is another touching post by Rachel Macy Stafford filled with authenticity and vulnerability. In this post on parenting, she talks about losing her joy and seeing the impact on her family. When her husband reflected that she was never happy…

kinder teaching, Awesome Stories

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This week Awesome Stories brings you healthy habits, passion, blessings, and kinder teaching. Healthy Habits Alex Korb, a UCLA neuroscientist, offers us four healthy habits that can create more happiness in our lives. Alex suggests that we use these habits daily to create a cycle of well-being in our lives by boosting our brain chemistry.…

love at work, Awesome Stories

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This week Awesome Stories brings you human books, children at play, love at work, and special athletes. Children at Play This article really resonates with me. I’ve often wondered whether kids are being pushed too hard to excel at school, grades, and sports. According to Luis Fernando Llosa, children are being robbed of their childhoods.…

listening, communication, nurturing

Are You Listening?

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. ~ Epicteus Do you listen to your children (spouse, friends, coworkers)? I used to be a good listener. When I was younger, people would open and share very personal things with me. Then later, they would express…