Links I’m Sharing (weekly)
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Have You Considered The Power of Hope?
If you’re here today, there is hope for a better tomorrow.
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Parents need to get cyber savvy to help protect their kids online, says expert
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We Know Fight or Flight, but What If There Is Another Common Response to Trauma?
That’s the theory, called polyvagal theory, put forth in this Guardian article by Stephen Porges. I think this is something we need to consider: Can you explain polyvagal theory in layperson’s terms? Polyvagal theory articulates three different branches of the autonomic nervous system that evolved from very primitive vertebrates to mammals. And it’s quite interesting how the…
Link – Kate Bowler: “Everything happens for a reason” — and other lies I’ve loved
This is a hard TedTalk to watch. Not only does Kate discuss her cancer diagnosis, and her struggle in a very straight-froward manner, she also takes on this idea that life is fair, or that everything is part of a plan for our own prosperity. She studied the religious connotation of this, the “prosperity gospel”,…
Link – CDC says more Americans died of suicide last year than in at least 50 years
The fact that life expectancy is on the decline, in a time when technology and health care continues to find new ways to keep people alive, is shocking. So shocking in fact that right now we are looking at being compared to this: “For decades, U.S. life expectancy was on the upswing, rising a few…
Sharing – Texas parents must now sign-off on child abuse, dating violence education
I’m afraid that I have the same concerns about this change in Texas law. “School districts in Texas are now required to teach students about dating violence, family violence, child abuse and sex trafficking after a new law went into effect in early December. But advocates are concerned that a last-minute change to the law’s…
