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May 18, 2020

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Resilient Threads: Weaving Joy and Meaning into Well-Being

Physician burnout, depression, and suicide are tearing at the fabric of our health care system, which Dr. Mukta Panda has witnessed firsthand, written about, and sought to address for years. She is a physician, speaker, and facilitator whose work seeks to transform the heart of patient care and medical education. In her latest book, Resilient Threads: Weaving Joy and Meaning into Well-Being, Dr. Panda gives voice to the exhaustion and offers courage for another way. As a physician and medical educator, she has fought to return human touch to healthcare. As a mother, she has committed — and sometimes failed — to balance the personal with the professional. And as an immigrant, she has clung to the wisdom of her family and faith in the face of discrimination and fear. By weaving stories of connecting to her patients, students, and colleagues with her own stories of belonging, she models how we can each thrive by creating community and self-awareness. Read an excerpt from her book here. { read more }

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Join this Saturday’s Awakin Call with Mukta Panda. RSVP details and more info here. { more }

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May 17, 2020

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Beyond Overwhelm into Refuge

“We are in the midst of an emergency that is forcing us into varying states of economic distress, isolation and anxiety. We are united in our vulnerability and our courageous attempts to think and live differently as the fragility of the economy reveals itself to us. There is a deep desire among us to find freedom and imagination in this moment. Much of the work, of course, is in cultivating the resources within to help weather the storm.” The team at Dumbo Feather has put together this care package of inspiration and information to help navigate the turbulence and uncertainty of this time. { read more }

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Spend some time each day doing something that brings you closer to the ground of your own being.

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May 16, 2020

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Appalachia’s Front Porch Network Is A Lifeline

“On any day in Appalachia, you can find gifts in front of houses, left on porches for the people inside: mushrooms just foraged, cookies freshly baked. The porch is an extension of the home in Appalachia–not only a gathering spot for conversation, but a traditional sharing place. If you want to exchange tools, plants, or hand-me-downs with your neighbor: you put them on the porch. In times of struggle, porches are the vessel to deliver food: frozen meals to new parents, casseroles for grieving families. Now, because of COVID-19, those practices are becoming more important than ever. A traditional gathering place where the public meets the private is now the critical point of contact for families isolated during the pandemic.” { read more }

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Check out the Aspen Institute’s blog post on resources for maintaining community during these times. { more }

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May 15, 2020

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The Value of Being Uncomfortable

“‘Anyone with any degree of mental toughness ought to be able to exist without the things they like most for a few months at least,’ Georgia O’Keeffe, impoverished and solitary in the desert, wrote in considering limitation, creativity, and setting priorities as she was about to revolutionize art while the world was crumbling into its first global war. There are echoes of Stoicism, of Buddhism, of every monastic tradition in O’Keeffes core insight — that only in the absence of our habitual comforts, without all the ways in which we ordinarily cushion against the hard facts of our own nature and our mortality, do we befriend ourselves and discover what is most alive in us. The contrast, uncomfortable at first, even painful, becomes a clarifying force. Without the superfluous, the essential is revealed.” { read more }

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The next time you find yourself in an uncomfortable situation, get curious about how it might be inviting you to evolve.

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May 14, 2020

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Health for All: The Journey of Dr. Abhay Bhang

In 1986, when Dr Abhay and Dr Rani Bang decided to adopt Gadchiroli, a tribal village in Maharashtra, India as their home and workplace, the district was infamous for Naxalism, abject poverty, poor infrastructure and abysmal health services. Today, nearly 30 years later the Bangs’ model of home-based newborn and child care is now being practiced across India and even in Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and African nations such as Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi and Madagascar. By taking neo-natal care to the doorstep of the poor, they have managed to control infant mortality in the 39 villages where they work. More on their remarkable work in this article. { read more }

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For more inspiration join a webinar with Dr. Abhay Bhang, and the Mother Teresa of Pune, Sister Lucy this weekend. More details and RSVP info here. { more }

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May 13, 2020

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Views on a Pandemic

“I write to you now from my home in Seattle, former ground zero of the U.S. coronavirus epidemic, on the fifty-fifth day of our isolation. I write to you nine months pregnant, from the attic bedroom where I fatten on dates meant to hasten the child’s arrival, perhaps upon this very bed. It is a rather Victorian confinement, subplot of the quarantine that is pregnancy itself. Friends and acquaintances reach out to say they are sorry, that it must be difficult to be expecting during this time. And it’s true that contracting the illness is somewhat more complicated for me. Mainly I fear getting sick enough to need a ventilator and an emergency cesarean. Mainly my fear is not being able to hold and kiss my baby when he’s born. Otherwise, my days don’t look all that different from my life before. I’m a writer who mostly works from home, accustomed to long stretches of shut-in solitude. I still manage to waddle out for my daily stroll. Pandemic may be, I dare say, the single real-world situation for which I am uniquely well equipped.” Poet and writer Lisa Wells shares more in this essay. { read more }

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Pick a creative avenue– be it writing, singing, movement, painting or something else entirely, and give expression to your experience of, and views on this period in human history.

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May 12, 2020

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Gathering Gratefully in the Time of Coronavirus

“The hardships we face may feel amplified by our increasing need to stay home, isolating ourselves from others in service of the common good. Discovering ways to foster ease, belonging, kindness, and well-being under these circumstances may feel challenging, yet opportunities for nourishment can find their way into our worlds. The gifts of technology can offer us meaningful connection and support as many of us find increasing comfort in even the simple sound of another persons voice over phone or video.” From the Gratefulness Team comes this compilation of resources, practices, and reflection questions geared towards supporting grateful gatherings in this new era. { read more }

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What gifts feel apparent in your life amidst the challenges?

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May 11, 2020

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Greg Tehven: Business, Local Community and Love

“I think we have to love our sense of place, and champion the heck out of it”, says Greg Tehven, who is turning the world of economic development on its head, and inviting people to build the communities they want to live in. Confronted with the business failings of his beloved hometown of Fargo, North Dakota, he asked himself what the community could offer to the public that would help get it back on its feet. An unexpected answer surfaced, based on the city’s small population and open spaces: drones. Fargo now hosts an annual drone conference attracting attendees from around the world. The town has quickly become an appealing city for college graduates, business leaders, and tech enthusiasts. Co-founder of Emerging Prairie, curator of TEDx Fargo, and host of a burgeoning entrepreneurial ecosystem, Tehven is changing what it means to harness the power of our communities, and improve the human condition. { read more }

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In this potent time we are living through, consider committing strongly to the support of local businesses, whether a baker, a hardware store, or a local farmer’s market. How have they been affected by the lockdown, and what can you do to get them back on their feet?

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