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⭐️ "It questions what constitutes a “family” and how one person comes to terms with a lifetime of loss and loneliness..." ~ 5-Star Amazon.com Review of The Whip by @KarenKondazian1| @TheWhipNovel 📕 geni.us/TheWhip 🎧 geni.us/TheWhipAudible #bookboost

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙒𝙝𝙞𝙥 is a story that took place over one hundred years ago and is still relevant today, as some of the same biases and prejudices shape people’s lives... ~ @Goodreads @KarenKondazian1 | @TheWhipNovel 📕 geni.us/TheWhip 🎧 geni.us/TheWhipAudible

🍃 The Cost of Quitting: Why Sobriety Begins With Grief, Not Triumph by @AAlfanoAuthor ow.ly/9WQS50Yn2E3 Why early sobriety feels like grief, and what must replace a coping system that once worked... There’s a moment I’ve watched hundreds of times... #MentalHealth

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙒𝙝𝙞𝙥 is a story that took place over one hundred years ago and is still relevant today, as some of the same biases and prejudices shape people’s lives... ~ @Goodreads @KarenKondazian1 | @TheWhipNovel 📕 geni.us/TheWhip 🎧 geni.us/TheWhipAudible

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙒𝙝𝙞𝙥 is a story that took place over one hundred years ago and is still relevant today in how some of the same biases and prejudices shape people’s lives, and is a story of sacrifice and survival that captured my heart. ~ @Goodreads Review @KarenKondazian1 | @TheWhipNovel 📕 geni.us/TheWhip 🎧 geni.us/TheWhipAudible

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙒𝙝𝙞𝙥 is a story that took place over one hundred years ago and is still relevant today, as some of the same biases and prejudices shape people’s lives... ~ @Goodreads @KarenKondazian1 | @TheWhipNovel 📕 geni.us/TheWhip 🎧 geni.us/TheWhipAudible

Anna Dostoyevskaya’s greatest gamble wasn’t about money. It was about love: what she was willing to risk in walking towards her husband’s brokenness rather than away from it. ~ @AndrewDKaufman, The Courage to Risk on Another Person: How Trust in Uncertain Moments Forges Commitment (video) #humanity #love #compassion #courage #gamble #dostoyevsky #anna

Anna Dostoyevskaya’s greatest gamble wasn’t about money. It was about love: what she was willing to risk in walking towards her husband’s brokenness rather than away from it. ~ @AndrewDKaufman, The Courage to Risk on Another Person: How Trust in Uncertain Moments Forges Commitment (video) #humanity #love #compassion #courage #gamble #dostoyevsky #anna

Anna Dostoyevskaya’s greatest gamble wasn’t about money. It was about love: what she was willing to risk in walking towards her husband’s brokenness rather than away from it. ~ @AndrewDKaufman, The Courage to Risk on Another Person: How Trust in Uncertain Moments Forges Commitment (video) #humanity #love #compassion #courage #gamble #dostoyevsky #anna

The Connection Between Eating Disorders and Sexual Violence | via @NSVRC ow.ly/1hwR50OytFG “Understanding the connection between sexual trauma and eating disorders is vital for… survivors of sexual assault and those recovering from eating disorders.” #MentalHealth

💥 NEW: from @BadRedheadMedia - Substack vs Blogs: Why This Debate Might Be Missing the Point geni.us/SubstackVSBlogs The real issue isn’t the platform. It’s how readers discover, and come back... Shout out to @Booklinker and @GeniusLink - universal book links. GREAT tools.

#MondayBlogs 🔵 How to Turn Painful Childhood Memories into Powerful Life Lessons by @WorkedForMeBook ow.ly/Nf0650YAOo9 I wish kids my age back then had shown me more compassion. Having a photographic memory REALLY sucks.

LIVE, with Author, Survivor, and Business Owner Rachel Thompson @RachelintheOC aka @BadRedheadMedia on the @BillyDees Podcast | via @GoodpodsHQ ow.ly/LHhH50TR2Cg #MondayBlogs

S*bstack Made Simple Part II: Why Your Posts Aren’t Being Found (And Small Fixes That Help) | @BadRedheadMedia geni.us/SubstackMadeSi… How small setup choices affect our discoverability and what to do about it. #MondayBlogs

#MondayBlogs 🔵 Can We Still See the Good? | @AndrewDKaufman buff.ly/AmnCBED One of the hardest lessons I’m still learning is how to stay open when the truth turns out to be more painful—and more complicated—than we hoped. I didn’t learn that in a faculty workshop or from a book. I began learning it in a moment I didn’t expect: when one of my students spoke a truth I wasn’t ready for. Let me take you there. When the Story Breaks A few years ago, I was back on campus after finishing the latest session of Books Behind Bars, the class I created where my university students study Russian literature alongside incarcerated youth. We’d just wrapped up our final visit to the correctional center. The students were back in their usual classroom seats—jackets slung over chair backs, legal pads and laptops open, coffee cups cooling on desks. From past experience, I knew that the final debrief day was always emotionally charged, a time to make sense of what the experience had meant. We were winding down when one usually quiet student raised her hand. There was a tremor in her voice. “Professor Kaufman,” she said, “there’s something I need to share with the group.”... Read more: buff.ly/AmnCBED FREE to read & subscribe.

🍃 Fully Feral: Why Kids Need Dirt, Fewer Screens, and Parents Who Go Outside Too | @AAlfanoAuthor ow.ly/bs9J50Y7Mac More and more, what I see clinically looks less like broken children and more like a broken environment. #MondayBlogs

🔵 How Mastering the Art of Taking a Flying Leap Helped Me Grow | Jeff Burgess @WorkedForMeBook ow.ly/Pmm850Y0fGv During my childhood, I spent a decent amount of time in the cast room of Evanston Hospital, what with four broken arms by age 12... #MondayBlogs

via Failure Is An Option Book by Mike Grossman: One of the chapters I couldn’t figure out how to write would have been titled Kremlinology. The term, which was coined during the Soviet era, refers to the practice of “using public clues to decipher what is actually happening behind the scenes.” In the context of the Soviet Union, government leaders would appear together, every May Day, on a viewing stand atop Lenin’s Mausoleum. Based on what could be observed, “Kremlinologists” would then speculate about whose influence was waxing or waning. They would wonder about things like “Who is the person standing to Brezhnev’s left?”, “Why is the guy behind Brezhnev wearing a red hat?”, and “Why is the guy who stood to Brezhnev’s right last year nowhere to be seen?” Here’s the analogy to Silicon Valley. When you’re running an entrepreneurial company, deals determine your destiny. There are key moments where you need to urgently raise money, or forge a strategic relationship, or make a critical sale. And when the potential partner isn’t responding as rapidly or eagerly as you want (or need), it’s very easy to start behaving like a Kremlinologist. There is a temptation to endlessly ruminate about what the hell is going on. Have they lost interest? Are they just busy? Did you say the wrong thing during a recent meeting? Should you immediately reach out? Would you appear too desperate if you immediately reached out? And so on. In my first company, my business partner (Scott Belser) and I started exploring a potential strategic relationship with FICO (the leader in credit scoring). The discussions initially went well until — abruptly — our main contact stopped responding. This was more than an unfortunate development. Our company was in a precarious state, and we needed the deal or we were dead in the water. Scott and I soon lost ourselves in a kind of Kremlinological purgatory. We speculated, for hours on end, why communication had ceased. Maybe FICO had lost interest. Maybe they had chosen a different partner. Maybe our main contact had been fired. And we likewise agonized about the personal implications. Should we change our business concept? Did we need to accept defeat and look for new jobs? Two weeks went by. And then our main contact reached out. He had been on (an amazing) vacation in Europe and was now back in the office. He remained enthusiastic about working with us. In other words, our Kremlinological ruminations had been worse than useless. Consumed by stress, we had wasted an enormous amount of time and energy, and accomplished nothing. The lesson: Sometimes when a company isn’t responding it means something. And sometimes it doesn’t. You’ll find out soon enough which it is. So don’t drive yourself crazy trying to guess.

☀️ It's LIVE! My newly-updated @BadRedheadMedia 30-Day Book Marketing Challenge is available now geni.us/30DayMarketing #ebook and #print #WritingCommunity - learn how to set up your author platform for success! ☀️ Twitter, FB, IG, blogging, marketing, promo, social...

NEW: The Space In Between by Margaret Whitford, Author buff.ly/P9RgEfv For a time, years ago now, my husband and I took private lessons in Latin and ballroom dance. The studio, where we met with our teacher twice a week, attracted students with a range of interests—training for competitions, improving social dancing skills, or preparing for a single event. Our goals were less specific; we thought learning to dance together would be fun. I have long since forgotten what I learned in terms of the actual dance steps, but I remember the principles. Now, when I recall those dance lessons, I tend to think about what ballroom dancing suggests about marriage. As dance partners, our roles were complementary, a rather obvious parallel to marriage. Tom, as lead, proposed the dance movement through subtle movements of his hands and body. Those cues had to be gentle—he could not push or pull me into a step—but they needed to be unambiguous, so that his direction was clear. As follow, I responded to Tom’s lead by completing and enhancing our movement. Occasionally, our teacher asked me to close my eyes while dancing to avoid anticipating or resisting Tom’s lead. Without sight, I had to feel his intention, and that sensitized me to the physical connection between us. It’s a good lesson to learn, especially for someone overly reliant on verbal communication... Click to read the rest!