Kinda like the saying "Silence is golden, but sometimes it's yellow," (i.e. if you don't have anything nice to say, don't speak, but if you're keeping silent on injustice... well, you get the drift). It's similar with willful ignorance being the opposite of bravery. It's not blissful if you can help it.

Helping people understand you, your personality, where they end and you begin. Helping you with your "NO" so you don't become co-dependent, but nurture interdependence in relationships.

Traumatic occurrences do not have to be the end all, but rather - education for the future!

You have before you life and death, therefore choose life!

Scientific reason or not, you have privacy rights and body autonomy. Some exceptions apply.

Love first.

We can bring the world to a higher place. We can change chaos with understanding. Love is the higher power. Bridging the Gap celebrates our 33rd episode and end of season one with a challenge to turn around from hate and strife.

Helping create good government by choosing political leaders from a place of empathy. Leaning in to understand political differences helps us make healthy choices by allowing people to struggle with different views and trust they'll figure it out without forcefulness.

Let's get naked (raw, vulnerable, open and honest).

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Psyching yourself up to follow through with day to day tasks doesn't exactly spell character, but faithfulness does, and it's way more important to surviving life than we sometimes realize.