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Maintaining optimism when hope fails: A guide to resilience.

In a world often marked by uncertainty, challenges, and setbacks, maintaining optimism can feel like an uphill battle. Hope is a powerful motivator, but what happens when the light at the end of the tunnel dims? When hope fails, it can be easy to succumb to despair and pessimism. However, cultivating a sense of optimism […]

Fear! (Part II)

The seeds of social rejection are sown and nurtured through stigmatization, labeling, and myriad forms of discrimination.  Every act of group stigmatization arises out of the desire of a dominant group to establish, exercise and maintain its dominance over less powerful or marginalized groups.  The elements of stigmatization include negative labeling, social separation of groups, […]

Fear! (Part I)

For a very long time, we have known from studies that human nature would almost require us to do anything that we think might protect us from real, imagined or clearly perceived dangers. The other side of that is that, out of a desire for the preservation of organized society, we are under the requirement […]

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Fear! (Part II)

29th March 2023

Fear! (Part I)

26th March 2023

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