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Resilience

“If words and action can foster my healing, they can transform others as well.”

By Caryn Sullivan
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Resilience

“Through work and openness, my Option B returned to something that mirrored my Option A.”

By Joseph Primo
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Raising Resilient Kids

“Since then I’ve thought of Penelope as ‘he.’...It was the best thing I could have done.”

By Jodie Patterson
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Health, Illness & Injury

“My greatest joy now is just being able to wake up in the morning. On August 5, 2012, I wasn't so sure that would happen.”

By Brian Murphy
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Abuse & Sexual Assault

“I want more people to understand that women don’t have to be abused.”

By Gloria Marina Icu Puluc
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“What was important to me 15 years ago has changed. Now I want to help other people through their own challenge or crisis.”

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Grief & Loss

“She is more capable than she ever imagined she could be. She is a survivor.”

By Jill Goldstein
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Resilience

Celebrating Mother’s Day with two dads

By Jean Azar-Tanguay
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Grief & Loss

“Hilaria Baldwin: Why I Shared My Miscarriage in Real Time”

By Hilaria Baldwin
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Resilience

“I wasn't going to break or die or disappear. I was stronger than I knew.”

By Rachel Spielman
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Resilience

"It was in these seemingly small breakthroughs and tiny glimpses of progress that my hope and faith began to be restored."

By Rebecca Galli
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Resilience

Keeping my brother’s memory alive after 9/11

By Jim Giaccone
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Resilience

Finding hope in community during a hurricane

By Karthik Rajan
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Resilience

“I saw a small cloud with the spectrum of the rainbow across it. It was peculiar and beautiful. I found her, a sign of her.”

By Julie Summerford Pearson
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Resilience

“She asked herself, ‘If not me, who? If not now, when?’”

By Kat Cole
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Resilience

Giving back to survivors of natural disasters

By Chanell Alaniz
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Resilience

Option B support group: LGBTQ people facing family and community rejection

Far too many LGBTQ people face discrimination and rejection in their families, schools, and communities. Here you will find a safe space to share your experiences and get support from others who are going through the same thing.

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Health, Illness & Injury

“I took a deep breath and did not harm myself that night. Running saved my life.”

By Jackson K
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Resilience

“For the first time, I was truly choosing to happen to life, rather than letting life happen to me. I was choosing resiliency.”

By Angie Mozilo
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Resilience

“It takes time, determination, and the effort to reinvent yourself. You will change; it’s inevitable.”

By Bobbi Huffman
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Resilience

“The happiest days are the ones during which I live fully in the now.”

By Glen Kirkpatrick
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Resilience

“It was the hardest thing I’ve ever gone through, to lose everything I had built.”

By Damon Redd
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Health, Illness & Injury

“Happiness is not something given to you or earned; it is something you decide.”

By Jennifer Hahne
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Grief & Loss

“It makes me feel great that my girls witnessed my resilience, and saw me build something for myself.”

By Stacy Feintuch
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Resilience

Creating a new normal after 9/11

By Denise Olsen
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Raising Resilient Kids

“I have decided that the best act of service to myself, the children, and Linda, is to choose a life of meaning and happiness.”

By Gareth Jones
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