Originally posted on MakeItUltra™:
Written by Eric C., MA., PhD Candidate Audio version available | Click here “He who has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.”…
Originally posted on ~Recovery Starts Here~ A Bet Free, Sober, & Clean Blog~ Sharing Hope in Recovery One Day at a Time~:
Hello and Welcome Friends and New Visitors, Many of my regular friends here know I am living with mental health challenges along with maintaining my recovery from addiction. Many suffer in a variety of…
It’s been a while since I last posted here, mainly because so much seems to have been happening, but also because, well I was afraid that writing about vulnerability might unleash the waterwo… Source: Strong – Hayley Crawshaw
Originally posted on Longreads:
Dylan Matthews donated his left kidney to a perfect stranger, in what’s known as a “non-directed” donation. Dylan’s kidney initiated a donation chain in which four people received live-saving kidney transplants. Read his account at Vox. On Monday, August 22, 2016, a surgical team at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore removed…
Originally posted on Olderhood.com:
When Time Flies. When It Doesn’t. by Bob Ritzema Time is measured according to physical events of a cyclical nature–the earth circling the sun or turning on its axis, the phases of the moon, or the electronic transitions of certain atoms. Time matters to us, but it isn’t these physical cycles…
Many experts have blamed a poor job market, but new research indicates that an overlooked cause may be poor health. by Alana Semuels CHARLOTTE, North Carolina—John LaRue is having a tough time of it these days. He used to move things for people, advertising his services on Craigslist. But work slowed up, and he became […]
Originally posted on Longreads:
When’s the last time you saved thousands of lives with a Facebook post? It happened last year to Greg Owen, recently profiled by Buzzfeed UK, a part-time bartender and club promoter from Northern Ireland who contributed to last year’s steep drop in new HIV diagnoses in London while homeless, underemployed, and…
Originally posted on Breaking Moulds:
“There is no greater agony then bearing an untold story inside you.” -Maya Angelou Once upon a time, there was a girl who was given a heart to call her own. It was the prettiest thing she had ever seen: large and bright and made of something like glass. She…
Originally posted on Musings of PuppyDoc:
Once when I was on a specialized heart failure service, I took care of a teenage boy. He had a form of idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy and had a big heart…in, obviously, more ways than one. He loved baseball, pumpkin pie, and horses. His family owned a farm, so before…
