February 2022

I learned to ski as an adult so I will never be great, but I absolutely love it and can hold my own. As my two older kids have long surpassed me in terms of skill level, one of the things I now do when I go on a hard run with them is to let them go first and watch what they do. I look for the path they take, how fast they go, where they struggle, and then make adjustments based on my own strengths and challenges. When Origins Co-Founder Andi Fetzner and I started Origins back in 2017, the...

February is a special month – it’s Choose Love Awareness Month! It’s time to celebrate love and focus on our ability to choose love in our lives! For 28 days the Choose Love Movement shares daily action tips on ways you can bring more ‘Nurturing Healing Love’ to yourself and others all month long and beyond. We also share how you can live a Choose Love lifestyle by incorporating the Choose Love Formula into your daily life: Courage + Gratitude + Forgiveness + Compassion-in-Action = Choosing...

Miss Kendra Programs Teachers’ Support Group: A Bi-Weekly Discussion with Dr. Hadar Lubin and Erinn Webb When : Bi-weekly on Thursdays at 4-5PM EST via Zoom, starting soon! Join Dr. Hadar Lubin, MD, Chief Medical Officer of Miss Kendra Programs and Co-Director of the Post Traumatic Stress Center, and Erinn Webb, MA, RDT, Director of Primary Education Programs, on a journey exploring how stress is affecting your job as a teacher/educator. Previous participants are welcome back! This program...

November is the month of Thanksgiving; a month to look at one’s life and be grateful for what we have. Over turkey and the fixings, we are supposed to sit around a table Norman Rockwell style and get along famously because we have each other. Reality differs greatly from fantasy in that lots of people do not feel gratitude for their family of origin or the circumstances in which they find themselves. Instead, they find themselves feeling guilty because in November because they do not get the...

By Sara Satullo, Photo: Saed Hindash/lehighvalleylive.com, January 25, 2022 At 17, Cindy Rivas started working at South Bethlehem’s Car Village Title and Notary. Today, the 37-year-old is the owner. But a proposed 9-story development on the site of her South New Street business has left Car Village’s future in limbo after 46 years on the city’s Southside. She’s been served eviction papers as the storefront she rents is slated for demolition. “It is stressful,” said Rivas, who grew up in the...

By Anya Kamenetz, Image: LA Johnson/NPR, National Public Radio, February 1, 2022 Teachers are picking up slack for absent colleagues. They're covering for unfilled positions. And 55% of them say they will leave teaching sooner than they had originally planned, according to a poll of its members by the nation's largest teachers union. The National Education Association poll , conducted in January, helps quantify the stress being placed on educators right now. It found that the number who say...

By Ramin Ganeshram, Image: Peter Horree/Alamy, British Broadcasting Corporation, February 1, 2022 E ach year, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, sees millions of heritage-seeking tourists who traipse the reconstructed brick pathways of the old city, eager to see the sites that birthed ideas of American liberty such as Independence Hall , where the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, and the iconic Liberty Bell . But like its ties to democracy, Philadelphia's connection to great American...

To get up to speed on the latest science, Relish Life founders, Liz Dickinson and Shannon Shearn, and Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Al Ray, are hosting a webinar on the medications prescribed at Relish Life and how they differ from the “diet pills” of the past. Learn more and RSVP here!

Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, shown at her home in San Francisco, became the state’s first surgeon general in 2019. (Paul Kuroda / For The Times) By Hayley Smith | Staff writer California’s top physician is stepping down. Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, who became the state’s first surgeon general in 2019, announced her resignation Tuesday, her office confirmed. Dr. Devika Bhushan, chief health officer, will serve as acting surgeon general. Gov. Gavin Newsom thanked Burke Harris for “the impactful...

By Reema Amin, Photo: José A. Alvarado Jr./Chalkbeat, Chalkbeat, February 1, 2022 When New York City school officials introduced a new COVID policy during winter break, panic spread among many Bangladeshi parents in parts of central Brooklyn. In a letter to families, officials said students could now stay in school if exposed to COVID, as long as they tested negative on at-home tests. The letter also said officials “ strongly encourage ” children to get a test before returning to school —...

By Julie Zauzmer Weil, Photo: Toni L. Sandys/The Washington Post, The Washington Post, February 1, 2022 Thousands of day-care workers in Washington will get personal checks from the D.C. government for at least $10,000, after the D.C. Council voted unanimously Tuesday to redirect tax dollars from the city’s richest residents to child-care workers, who legislators say they believe are underpaid. The council raised taxes on the city’s highest earners last year, and the members voted at that...

By Shayne Rodriguez Thompson, Photo: wikimedia/WhiteHouse.gov, HipLATINA, January 28, 2022 The ever-inspiring Supreme Court Justice, Sonia Sotomayor , just released her fourth children’s book earlier this week, J ust Help! How to Build a Better World , inspired by her beloved mom. Sonia credits her with instilling an attitude of positivity and optimism in her. Celina Báez Sotomayor died in July 2021 of cancer at 93 years old and following the loss Sonia was inspired to write this book to...