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How to Help Your Loved Ones Stick to Their Goals Jan 14-- Whether it is a New Year’s resolution or other life-changing goal, friends and family like to help. However well-meaning, they can unintentionally hinder someone’s efforts to make changes. Psychologists say a person’s ability to change depends on motivation, and motivation depends on three things: confidence that we can make the change; our sense of autonomy “based on our own choice ...

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When kindness becomes a habit, it improves our health Jan 11-- Research through the years shows volunteering and acts of kindness increase happiness and psychological well-being. Newer findings reveal they can improve physical health as well. Some results: less decline in memory and executive function; ability to walk longer at older ages with better balance; lower levels of physical pain; healthier body mass index; less stress that can drive up blood ...

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The algorithm says crisis. The social worker says trust. Jan 9-- Los Angeles County social workers are getting a little help from an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system to identify people at risk of losing their housing using digital warnings such as “repeated emergency room visits, mounting unpaid bills, food stamp applications that suddenly stop.” It is a shift in social work that helps identify people before a crisis, whereas, traditionally, they ...

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Glimpses of Hope in 2024 Jan 6-- In the midst of what may seem like only bad news and more bad news, enjoy these ten examples of what Solutions Journalism Network calls “hope with teeth -- not naive assumptions everything will resolve perfectly, but awareness of the scope of the problem and potential solutions, along with a belief in the possibility of better outcomes rooted in action.” ...

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How a Group's Ornament Exchange Helps with Grief During Holidays Jan 4-- Grieving Gracefully is a virtual support group that gives people a “place to go” with their grief. Founder Kelly Sammon said they hoped to "shine just a little bit of light in somebody's life" during those painful times, and especially during holidays. After her own grieving and extensive research, Kelly realized people feel alone in their grief, and more readily ...

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All Life is Sacred: A Conversation with John Malloy Jan 2-- "By the time John Malloy was seventeen, he had moved forty-four times. In his young life as a rolling stone, Malloy learned to rely on himself. Whatever allies and friends he might have begun to cultivate in one place were always torn away by his constant displacement. In schools in New York, Washington D.C., San Francisco, and Oakland, as the ...

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