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By Terry Gross, Photo: Mary Altaffer/AP, National Public Radio, February 3, 2022 Across the U.S., educators are being censored for broaching controversial topics. Since January 2021, researcher Jeffrey Sachs says, 35 states have introduced 137 bills limiting what schools can teach with regard to race, American history, politics, sexual orientation and gender identity. Sachs has been tracking this legislation for PEN America , a writers organization dedicated to free speech. He says the...

By Damian Carrington, Photo: Yasin Akgül/AFP/Getty, The Guardian, February 1, 2022 Extreme heat in the world’s oceans passed the “point of no return” in 2014 and has become the new normal, according to research. Scientists analysed sea surface temperatures over the last 150 years, which have risen because of global heating. They found that extreme temperatures occurring just 2% of the time a century ago have occurred at least 50% of the time across the global ocean since 2014. In some...

From Marietta Daily Journal, Photo: Unsplash, February 3, 2022 Community leaders from across metro Atlanta convened on Feb. 1 for the first annual Resilient Cobb Summit presented by Cobb Collaborative. This half-day event was held at the Cobb Chamber of Commerce and hosted by Cobb Community Foundation. Speakers from Resilient Georgia addressed the significant need to recognize trauma, identify issues stemming from Adverse Childhood Experiences and work to build resilience to foster better...

Last week my mom texted me that a police officer had just stopped by her office and asked her to call the coroner's office. "It's about Kevin," she said. My heart sank. We'd been trying and trying the past three-and-a-half years to get Kevin the treatment he desperately needed. He had symptoms of so many illnesses: schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, borderline personality disorder, bipolar. He'd been in and out of jail, homelessness, and sober livings since relapsing on methamphetamine...

I learned to ski as an adult so I will never be great, but I absolutely love it and can hold my own. As my two older kids have long surpassed me in terms of skill level, one of the things I now do when I go on a hard run with them is to let them go first and watch what they do. I look for the path they take, how fast they go, where they struggle, and then make adjustments based on my own strengths and challenges. When Origins Co-Founder Andi Fetzner and I started Origins back in 2017, the...

February is a special month – it’s Choose Love Awareness Month! It’s time to celebrate love and focus on our ability to choose love in our lives! For 28 days the Choose Love Movement shares daily action tips on ways you can bring more ‘Nurturing Healing Love’ to yourself and others all month long and beyond. We also share how you can live a Choose Love lifestyle by incorporating the Choose Love Formula into your daily life: Courage + Gratitude + Forgiveness + Compassion-in-Action = Choosing...

Miss Kendra Programs Teachers’ Support Group: A Bi-Weekly Discussion with Dr. Hadar Lubin and Erinn Webb When : Bi-weekly on Thursdays at 4-5PM EST via Zoom, starting soon! Join Dr. Hadar Lubin, MD, Chief Medical Officer of Miss Kendra Programs and Co-Director of the Post Traumatic Stress Center, and Erinn Webb, MA, RDT, Director of Primary Education Programs, on a journey exploring how stress is affecting your job as a teacher/educator. Previous participants are welcome back! This program...

November is the month of Thanksgiving; a month to look at one’s life and be grateful for what we have. Over turkey and the fixings, we are supposed to sit around a table Norman Rockwell style and get along famously because we have each other. Reality differs greatly from fantasy in that lots of people do not feel gratitude for their family of origin or the circumstances in which they find themselves. Instead, they find themselves feeling guilty because in November because they do not get the...

By Sara Satullo, Photo: Saed Hindash/lehighvalleylive.com, January 25, 2022 At 17, Cindy Rivas started working at South Bethlehem’s Car Village Title and Notary. Today, the 37-year-old is the owner. But a proposed 9-story development on the site of her South New Street business has left Car Village’s future in limbo after 46 years on the city’s Southside. She’s been served eviction papers as the storefront she rents is slated for demolition. “It is stressful,” said Rivas, who grew up in the...

By Anya Kamenetz, Image: LA Johnson/NPR, National Public Radio, February 1, 2022 Teachers are picking up slack for absent colleagues. They're covering for unfilled positions. And 55% of them say they will leave teaching sooner than they had originally planned, according to a poll of its members by the nation's largest teachers union. The National Education Association poll , conducted in January, helps quantify the stress being placed on educators right now. It found that the number who say...

By Ramin Ganeshram, Image: Peter Horree/Alamy, British Broadcasting Corporation, February 1, 2022 E ach year, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, sees millions of heritage-seeking tourists who traipse the reconstructed brick pathways of the old city, eager to see the sites that birthed ideas of American liberty such as Independence Hall , where the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, and the iconic Liberty Bell . But like its ties to democracy, Philadelphia's connection to great American...

To get up to speed on the latest science, Relish Life founders, Liz Dickinson and Shannon Shearn, and Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Al Ray, are hosting a webinar on the medications prescribed at Relish Life and how they differ from the “diet pills” of the past. Learn more and RSVP here!