Category: Crisis
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Breakdown vs Breakthrough: How trauma can change your life
Tragedies and accidents can trigger stress, anxiety and depression; or they can be a catalyst for positive change. How can you manage the process to bring positive results out of negative events?
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Here’s to the game that made me believe, once again, in hope and heroes
When the view from your garden is of the H-shaped posts that beckon the bouncing ball, you begin to see just how rugby can shape a nation, and turn its dreams into cause for reflection and celebration
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A victory for the underdogs in the city of the terrible tsunami
It was a match marked by heroism, played in a city famed for its heroic response to a natural disaster. What can Uruguay vs Fiji teach us about the power of the human spirit?
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Shhh! Why I’ve gone all the way back to doing the job that I love
There’s a lot more to being a librarian than checking out books and hushing noisy readers. In the digital age, librarians are a human form of Internet, custodians of knowledge and trailblazers of a better, smarter way of learning “What do you do?” It’s the go-to question when you meet someone at a party. As…
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When I lost my father, I had to learn how to find myself
He was an absent dad for the most part, and the hurt he left behind has taken many years to heal. But even in the hardest of times, there have been lessons to learn about the power of standing strongly on your own
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How I learned to stop hating the money I never had
Money may not be able to buy happiness, but happiness can sometimes follow when you change the way you get on with money, and re-examine the role it plays in your everyday life.