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Through a Child's Eyes: How Do You Stop Domestic Violence When You Don't Know What to Do?
By: LY Marlow
Through my organization Saving Promise, I often receive mail from women seeking advice about domestic violence and how to break free from the cycle. I recently received one of the most basic yet poignant questions about domestic violence from a little girl named Angelina: "I know somebody who has been abused many times . . . How do you stop this when you don't know what to do because you are afraid of what might happen to you?"Read More
Surviving on a Budget
By: Alexander Smith
After living on a volunteer stipend with City Year Los Angeles, I learned how to budget my money and still build my savings. Here are some things that I have stuck with since.Read More
I deserve to be healthy...do you?
By: Ginger Vieira
About three years ago, I decided that I deserve to be healthy. I deserve to eat well. I deserve to exercise daily. I deserve to check my blood sugar often, count my carbohydrates, and control my blood sugar as well as I can. Not because someone told me I should, but because I decided that I deserve to be healthy.Read More
Meredith Israel Battles Stage Four Cancer: 'I Think of Myself as a Warrior'
Meredith Israel, a "cancer warrior" fighting Stage 4 breast cancer, shares her touching story. When she was 25, Meredith Israel found her first lump through a self breast exam. Two biopsies found that both were benign, and so when the lump began to grow a year later, doctors performed a lumpectomy and told Israel she should come back at age 40. It was advice she would not follow.
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Sisters Use Craigslist to Save Dad's Life
We are three sisters from New York who had one out of box idea -- to post an ad on Craigslist for a living donor for our father, after he was diagnosed with kidney disease. We were not compatible to donate to him, so we put the word out there to the universe! I am a nurse, my twin sister works in finance on Wall Street and our other sister is a social worker and Columbia alumni. We had used Craigslist for selling our jewelry, advertising, for jobs and for finding childcare ( I'm a single mom). We figured it had worked for everything else so why not for Dad? For a living donor? After a year and 4 months, much publicity and over 100 responses thereafter, an unknown woman from Monterey, California donated her kidney to our father. Today, they are both doing amazing!
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In tough times, who bounces back and who doesn’t? Who overcomes adversity and who gives up? And perhaps most important: What do survivors and thrivers know about beating the odds that the rest of us don’t? These are the questions that award-winning journalist Ben Sherwood explores in The Survivors Club from Grand Central Publishing.
In search of answers, Ben immersed himself in the world of surviving and thriving.
