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Building Hope

At lightning speed, Trump is chucking the constitution and flaunting cruel racist policies, throwing many Americans into despair. Climbing out of despair is contingent on building hope.  We build hope by joining with like-minded neighbors [...]

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Wise Women Speak

As a young woman, I never would have predicted that landing in my eighth decade would usher in the most content state of my life.  I expected the challenges of being in an aging body would sour my mood.  Instead, I finally grew up. I learned to reap the lessons from all my years of soul-searching, growing from romantic heartbreaks, career [...]

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The Stories We Tell Ourselves

We all have core stories we tell ourselves that keep us trapped in a negative narrative:  “I can’t seem to speak up when my feelings are hurt; I have a hard time believing I’m good enough; I’m too old to be in a relationship.” Esther Perel, the popular relationship therapist, believes that the stories we tell ourselves are adaptive [...]

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Become A Poverty Abolitionist

GUEST POST by ELIZABETH LEONARD Did you know that at present approximately 140 million (!!) Americans live in poverty or one $400 crisis away from slipping into the financial abyss? In Waterville, Maine, where I have lived and worked for thirty years, I have been a local organizer with the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral [...]

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