Life lessons | Tyra Garlington

Surviving human trafficking with Susan Young

Posted on July 14, 2019 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

Danielle Douglas was 17 years old, a freshman at Northeastern University, when she met the trafficker who forced her into two years of sex slavery. Her mother Jamie spoke with UNICEF USA about the factors that made her daughter vulnerable — and what parents need to know about trafficking in the United States. Jamie Chesman: We definitely had some mother-daughter angst. She didn’t always give me a lot of information about her life or interests. I think that a lot of our daughters feel like they’re ready before they’re ready — she definitely felt that way. We dropped her off, carloads full of things from Bed……
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Choose to take the next step.

Posted on June 4, 2019 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

“It really only takes a small shift every day that over time amounts to enormous change. People don’t suddenly heal and start living their ideal life overnight—their daily rituals (tiny steps) play a massive role in making it possible for them to create the life they sincerely want to live. You can choose to develop daily rituals that point you in the direction of creating your ideal life—or rituals that keep you firmly anchored to your present situation. Make the decision. Make the commitment. Then take the next tiniest step forward in the direction you choose to go. Honestly, that’s……
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Choose to focus only on today.

Posted on May 21, 2019 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

“No matter what’s happening, you can resourcefully fight the battles of just one day. It’s only when you add the battles of those two mind-bending eternities, yesterday and tomorrow, that life gets overwhelmingly intense and complicated. Accept that it’s not the experience of today that holds you back and drives you mad, but the regret and resentment about something that happened yesterday or the fear and dread of what tomorrow might bring, but probably won’t. It’s necessary, then, to let yourself live just one day at a time – just today – just right here, right now. And this same……
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I owe you this!

Posted on April 23, 2019 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

“What Parents Need to Know About 4/20 4/20 Day — the celebration of marijuana that occurs every year on April 20 — gets more popular every year. And while you probably haven’t heard too much about it, your kids likely have. That’s because 4/20 awareness spreads mostly on the sites and apps that attract tweens and teens, such as Twitter, YouTube, Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok, and other social media. Even mainstream companies including Wingstop, Lyft, Ben & Jerry’s, Denny’s and Burger King use the day to promote their brands not on TV or Facebook (where parents are), but on platforms with a younger following. If you’re looking for evidence of the virality of 4/20 Day,……
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Choose an attitude that moves you forward.

Posted on April 15, 2019 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

“The Greek philosopher Epictetus said it perfectly more than 2,000 years ago: “People are disturbed, not by things (that happen to them), but by the principles and opinions which they form concerning (those) things. When we are hindered, or disturbed, or grieved, let us never attribute it to others, but to ourselves; that is, to our own principles and opinions.” In other words, a peaceful and mentally strong person is not someone who’s always in a good situation, but rather someone who always has a good attitude in every situation. Regardless of what you’re going through, it’s about choosing: Will……
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Women’s History Month: You are More Than Who You’ve Become with Sherrell Moore-Tucker

Posted on April 11, 2019 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

Women’s History Month: You are More Than Who You’ve Become with Sherrell Moore-Tucker Podcast format of Tyra Garlington’s weekly radio show, Frankly Speaking with Tyra G. Broadcast on Radio Fairfax www.radiofairfax.com Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tyra-garlington/message…
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Choose yourself today.

Posted on April 9, 2019 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

It is what it is. Accept it, learn from it, and grow from it. It doesn’t matter what you’ve done; what truly matters is what you do from here. And what you need to remember right now is that you can’t heal yourself in the same exact environment where you got sick. You need to surround yourself with situations and people that push you to heal and grow. Less drama, less mess. Because the truth is, you won’t always be a priority to others—or to the world’s agenda at large—and that’s why you need to be a priority to yourself. Learn……
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It’s Women’s History Month: She could accept the injustice, or she could rewrite the law

Posted on March 12, 2019 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

“Every six months, the routine was the same for 21-year-old Harvard student Amanda Nguyen. She would walk through the doors of her local rape crisis center in Massachusetts and plead to administrators: Do not destroy my rape kit. With the massive backlog of rape kits in the U.S., it was nearly impossible in some states to ensure that a kit was tested, let alone even track down its location. New York City alone reportedly has an estimated 17,000 untested rape kits. Under Massachusetts law, Nguyen had to locate her own rape kit and file an extension to preserve the evidence in……
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Black History Month 2019 theme: Black Migrations … But is reverse migration reshaping US cities?

Posted on February 26, 2019 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

“Alden Loury remembers when buying his home felt like achieving the American dream. A black journalist from Chicago, Loury, and his wife were able to purchase a home for $165,000 in 2005 in Auburn Gresham, a predominantly black neighborhood on the city’s south side, where he grew up. “I felt great,” he told Curbed. “I was back in my neighborhood. I knew the streets and the places I went to as a kid were still here.” For Loury, who grew up in public housing as well as an apartment in a three-flat, buying a bungalow in his old neighborhood was……
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Let’s get this year started off right!

Posted on January 22, 2019 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

One Simple Question You Should Ask Everyone You Meet -by Marc Chernoff “It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.”—The Invitation by Oriah 7 Billion Stories in the World I don’t care what you do or what you own. I just want to know who you are. I want to know your uniqueness, the experiences you’ve had and the lessons you’ve learned. I want to know your story. What is your story? Everyone has one. And no two stories are exactly……
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