How to be More Resilient During Trying Times
December 15, 2008
tags: charities, economic upheavel, helping each other, minimize, Resilience, simplify, support, trying times
by Beth Terry
We know how we got here. During the last few decades we’ve been bent on owning everything we can get our hands on; accumulating wealth, debt, and “stuff” at an unprecedented rate. We are inundated daily with ads telling us that we aren’t enough; we don’t have enough; we aren’t beautiful enough; we aren’t skinny enough; our teeth aren’t white enough; we don’t have enough hair or have too much in the wrong places. Advertising and TV shows have worked us into a frenzy of insecurity about the status of our “stuff” compared to the “stuff” of our neighbors and complete strangers in the mall.
We need a road map back to… [more]
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