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Celebrate your personal heroes!

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The recent celebration of Labor Day and the 10th anniversary of 9/11 are good times to think about heroes — those people who have exhibited unusual courage in the face of challenge and hardship. We have national heroes, of course, but we should have personal heroes too, and I challenge you to celebrate the hero [...]

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My personal heroes: The Courage to Age Gracefully

Jim & Betty Herbert

Jim and Betty Herbert   This piece was originally published in The Gratitude Book Project: In Celebration of Personal Heroes, a special, free e-book in commemoration of Sept. 11, 2001. If you have trouble downloading it, email me at eliz…@heartspoken.com and I’ll send it to you.   My mother and father, ages 87 and 93, are [...]

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Celebrating Motherhood: I’m in the Book!

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Great news! As an official co-author of The Gratitude Book Project: Celebrating Moms and Motherhood, I want to share my gratitude with you with a special offer at the end of this blog post! I was so excited to take part in this book, because thinking about having a wonderful mother — and now having [...]

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Gratitude: The best medicine for “the blues”

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The Gratitude Book Project: Celebrating 365 Days of Gratitude “The Blues” can be like those nasty sticker bushes you sometimes encounter when you’re out taking a walk…they grab you and cling to you… and they hurt! Holidays often play tricks on us…they should be happy times, and often they are, but “the blues” can creep [...]

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“Everyone Communicates, Few Connect”

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Book Review: Everyone Communicates, Few Connect by John C. Maxwell John Maxwell is a great communicator–especially as a public speaker–so when this intriguing title crossed my radar screen, right at the time I was developing this blog about the Power of Connection, of course I checked it out. At the time, it was not yet [...]

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Connection through Compassion

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Book Review: Still Alice by Lisa Genova “This is a phenomenal book,” my friend Kay said as she loaned it to me. “Oh, good,” I replied. “What’s it about?” “Well, it’s about a woman with early onset Alzheimer’s.” She paused, knowing how unappealing that must have sounded. “I promise you, it’s worth reading.” If ANYONE [...]

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