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Gratitude: The First Step To Improve Your World
As a Sound Therapy Practitioner, I study the relaxing and healing effects of sounds on the body. Which has in turn led me to study the healing effects of mindfulness and emotions. When gratitude fills my mind, it also fills my body and stress is released. I am not the...
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Why I Dedicate My Voice to Amplifying the Voices of Nature
I am a recent addition to the Foundation for Family and Community Healing, coming on as the Director of Earth Programs in December. I am grateful for this opportunity and inspired about the growth in the future that the Foundation can bring to me and that I can give...
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Liberating Wings – One Earth Conservation
Extinct Carolina Parakeet, once native to eastern North America, including theUnited States. The last Carolina Parakeet died in the Cincinnati Zoo on February 21, 1918. Thisis an illustration by Jacques Barraband, created in 1801. Written by LoraKim Joyner One Earth...
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Ways to Care for Earth
We’re all busy. We don’t have time to add anything, and certainly not things we hate to do or don’t understand. I get it. I’m with you on that. And for so many of us, climate change seems like this insurmountable problem that we’re powerless to contribute to or...
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Humanity’s Purpose
Once upon a time, around 4.5 billion years ago, Earth was born. Earth has gone through many phases and stages since she was born, not unlike we do as we progress through the different stages of our lives. Earth has had periods where she was abundant with life, and...
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The Way We Treat Her
I have a dear and beloved friend who is like a sister to me. When I met her many years ago, she was down on her luck. She needed food and shelter, and for some reason, even though I barely knew her, I took her into my home since she had nowhere else to go. She...
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The Meaning of Christmas
I’m probably the last one on Earth who should be writing about the meaning of Christmas given my lack of experience and education in anything related to Christianity. Growing up in the US but not within a church means I consider myself culturally Christian. Being...
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Our Way of Being
I’ve been a student of healthy relationships my whole life, maybe on the remedial education side. Much of this learning initially was on my own by way of reading and experimenting with the support of therapists over the years. I really stepped up my learning nearly...
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Awe and Wonder – One Earth Conservation
Villagers in Honduras experiencing the wonder of listening to the heartbeat of a wild scarlet macaw, guided by Dr. LoraKim Joyner of One Earth Conservation. One Earth Conservation’s Nurture Nature Program aims to inspire, motivate, educate, and support people to take...
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For the Sake of Earth
Written by Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert We’re more powerful than we know. Together we can collectively create a miracle to reverse climate change and help provide the conditions for Earth to heal. I’m hopeful, because even though I may be completely wrong, it’s a strategy...
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