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Trauma that does not go away: the loss of a child and a brother featuring the David Owens family.

Posted on January 7, 2025 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

Here in the United States, we began to see evidence of the unprecedented challenge to our healthcare systems and economy and wonder if our democracy would be strong enough to withstand the attacks on our constitution. Globally, our world has been challenged in a way it had not been for over 100 years. An invisible enemy has invaded our privacy, routines, expectations, and hopes. Some of you, like me, have felt mental and emotional uncertainty and unrest. Everything that could be shaken is now shaking, where noise, angry noise, drowns laughter and love. And yet, a look behind this external……
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Were it not for those who cared, featuring Courtney Pierce of Samaritan House.

Posted on November 26, 2024 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

So, what if you believed the greatest service you could offer in life is to be a light on the path? Samaritan House fosters personal safety, growth, and self-sufficiency in adults and their children through freedom from sexual and domestic violence, human trafficking, and homelessness. Since 1984, Samaritan House has provided emergency and permanent housing, support services, and community outreach to victims of violence and homeless families in the Hampton Roads region. Clients receive support through case management, counseling, victim advocacy, nutrition assistance, transportation, access to medical care, and vocational training. Our children’s program works with youth to establish healthy……
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REWIND: Moments of Mindfulness: Pandemic Myth Busting with Dr. Valda Crowder

Posted on November 19, 2024 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

“You can call it a germ, you can call it the flu, you can call it a virus. You know, you can call it many different names. I’m not sure anybody even knows what it is.” – President Trump- Why do some people get really sick, but others do not? Are the models too optimistic or too pessimistic? Exactly how transmissible and deadly is the virus? How many people have actually been infected? How long must social restrictions go on for? Why are so many questions still unanswered?[1] The confusion partly arises from the pandemic’s scale and pace. Worldwide, at least 3.1 million people have been infected in less……
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Were It Not For Those Who Cared Featuring David Joyner, Development Manager of Britepaths of Fairfax County

Posted on November 5, 2024 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

So, this week, we begin with a twist to create our common thought space for today. In the words of Isabel Wilkerson in her interview with Krista Tippet on NPR entitled The Heart is the Last Frontier. And I Quote, “With all due respect, I can’t want to!” For some, this is the best of times. For others, it feels like the worst of times. For the wise, it is seen as one season in history. For others, it feels like an impending eternity of uncertainty. Words like ‘us’ and ‘them’ no longer define diversity but decree exclusion. Anger has……
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REWIND:Were it not for those who care, featuring Jaleh Moslehi, Chairperson of the Board, of the Center for Improving Women’s Lives

Posted on October 29, 2024 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

Susan Taylor, Essence Magazine Editor-in-Chief said in her 1993 book, In the Spirit: “There is a wisdom that is as much a part of our being as our flesh and blood and bones. Intuition, the deepest knowing. It is alive in us as children as simple faith in our feelings. But as we grow up and the outer world begins to matter more, the channel to intuition narrows. Western culture stifles intuition, dismissing what can’t be explained logically and scientifically, and discouraging reflection and feeling. It offers no real answers to how life should be lived. But life is more……
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REWIND: The Face of Homelessness With Tom Barnett, Director of Fairfax County Office To Prevent And End Homelessness

Posted on October 14, 2024 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

According to one estimate, nearly 570,000 people nationwide were homeless on a night in 2019. It is estimated that over 3,000 people sleep outside every night in Seattle. By Associated Press, Wire Service Content April 10, 2021, at 9:30 a.m. Man Sentenced 4 Years for Poisoning 8 California Homeless People, By Associated Press, Wire Service Content April 9, 2021, at 9:48 p.m. No Address, No ID, and Struggling to Get Their Stimulus Checks. LOS ANGELES (AP) — It is easy to walk past the homeless, to disregard the guy lying on the street, or ignore the woman standing at an intersection holding a handwritten……
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Courageous Conversations about Climate Change Featuring PRX Living on Earth Podcast

Posted on October 8, 2024 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

What happens when you hear or read the words “climate change”? Are you curious? Do you think about your, or your children’s life or lifestyle? Do you feel threatened? Or do you wonder what’s the big deal? Or do you deny that climate change exists? The following information is not meant to scare but to raise awareness of our planet’s condition. That is why it is a part of the series titled a courageous conversation. Consider this: The changes in climate to date have little parallel in human history. The last decade is quite likely the hottest the planet has……
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Legacy is for the Living featuring Mr. Bruce Wesley Owner of Chicago’s Wesley’s Shoes

Posted on September 3, 2024 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

Susan V. Bosak of the Legacy Project suggests, “Legacy is about life and living. It’s about learning from the past, living in the present, and building for the future. It is an interconnection across time, with a need for those who have come before us and a responsibility to those who come after us. A legacy may take many forms – children, grandchildren, a business, an ideal, a book, a community, a home, or some of ourselves. How many of us live so that our legacy reflects all we genuinely hold, most near and dear? How many of us are……
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From convict to star citizen, a courageous conversation with Helenia Bragg.

Posted on August 20, 2024 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

This story deserved a rewind. We all have times or seasons when it requires courage to make it from one moment to the next; to take the next step or to say the next word. And sometimes we let fear, shame, and guilt demonize our potential to overcome. What we discovered is that the ability to have a courageous conversation is often a process, a journey, not an event. It doesn’t always happen when it logically should; sometimes you have to grow into it. And sometimes courageous conversations happen in and stay in our heads… or our hearts. Sometimes our……
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Reflect, Restore, and Reposition with Brandon Cosby of OAR

Posted on August 6, 2024 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

JAIL is event-driven, choice involved, power stripping, and a visible shift. However, inside each inmate’s jail cell is the power of transformation. Transformation is process-driven, choice involved, and resides internally. Opportunities, Alternatives & Resources (OAR) is missioned to rebuild lives and create a safer community with options, alternatives, and resources for justice-involved individuals and their families. OAR is a local non-profit restorative justice organization providing human services since 1971. Its history has its roots in the highest principles of human rights and the most practical applications of a community’s enlightened self-interest and citizen action. Its origins can be traced to……
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