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The best laws and diversity training have not gotten us anywhere near where we want to go. Therapist and trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem is working with old wisdom and very new science about our bodies and nervous systems, and all we condense into the word “race.” Krista sat down with him in Minneapolis, where they both live and work, before the pandemic lockdown began. In this heartbreaking moment, after the killing of George Floyd and the history it carries, Resmaa Menakem’s practices offer us the beginning to change at a cellular level.

The Three Secrets of Resilient People

Dr Lucy Hone is a resilience expert who thought she found her calling supporting people to recover following the Christchurch earthquake. She had no idea that her personal journey was about to take her to a far darker place. In this powerful and courageous talk, she shares the three strategies that got her through an unimaginable tragedy⁠—and offers a profound insight on human suffering.

Coronavirus Sanity Guide — Ten Percent Happier

In times like these, we need practical, actionable ways of coping with stress, fear, and anxiety. The meditations, podcasts, blog posts, and talks on this page will help you build resilience and find some calm amidst the chaos.

The Science of Well Being

Engage in a series of challenges designed to build more productive habits. You will ultimately be prepared to incorporate a specific wellness activity into your life.

The Power of Vulnerability

Brené Brown studies human connection — our ability to empathize, belong, love. In a poignant, funny talk at TEDxHouston, she shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest to know herself as well as to understand humanity.

Managing Your Mental Health During COVID19

Never in the history of humanity have so many people been feeling intense anxiety related to COVID-19 and the world it will leave in its wake. The intent of this course is to give you a deeper understanding of the anxiety reaction as it relates to various aspects of our current life, ranging from our consumption of news to the way we talk to our children about this. This course will give you clear strategies for managing and, in fact, turning off the anxiety response at least for short periods.

Spirituality & Health

A compendium of resources for meditations and guides for wellbeing.

COMMUNITY SUPPORT

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Distress Tolerance

Covid 19, talking with children

Mitch Albom provides free book being written week by week

Hello, all. Mitch here. I hope everyone is healthy and able to make the best of things in this crazy time. You may know the city of Detroit, my home, is extremely hard hit by this pandemic. More deaths per capita than any city now. And dragging in getting better. As someone involved with the city and charity, I couldn’t just do our normal efforts. I had to try something more.

So, I came up with this: a new work of fiction called “Human Touch”, which I’m writing in real time, one week at a time, and offering for FREE. Yes. Anyone can read it on the web, or listen to it on Audible.com. You simply go to humantouchstory.com, or MitchAlbom.com, or https://www.audible.com/pd/Human-Touch-Audiobook/B0875XQZCK for the audio.

So why give away what I do for a living for free? Because I’m hoping people will pay that forward and make a donation to our new effort “Detroit Beats Covid 19!”, through saydetroit.org, the foundation I started in 2006. Absolutely 100 percent of the proceeds will go immediately to relief efforts that will include creating a mobile testing center in Detroit, feeding 2,000 homebound seniors every week, helping to operate a quarantine center for the homeless, and funding the creation of reusable, washable masks for first responders as well as feeding them.

What is “Human Touch” about? It’s a hopeful story, set in a small Michigan town, that follows the lives of four families who share a street corner. As a virus descends, we see how their relationships change, some fray, some grow stronger. Distrust enters. Risks are taken. Through it all, a unique little boy becomes the key to finding a way out of this crisis – until he suddenly disappears.

I hope you take a look at “Human Touch” each week. Chapter 1 and 2 are up now.

I hope even more that you’ll consider spreading it to others you know via social media, email, text, etc. You can use the book cover image above if you like. It’s free, so you’re not asking for anything from them. But the more people who see this or try it, the more money we might raise.

Here’s the links again: humantouchstory.com (print) and https://www.audible.com/pd/Human-Touch-Audiobook/B0875XQZCK (for the audio.)

I really appreciate your reading and sharing this. I know we’ll get through this together, and hopefully this effort will make life for Detroit’s a bit easier. It’s the least I can try and do.

Best to everyone and much love.

– Mitch

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