Joining me today on Moving Target is Courtenay Turner of the Courtenay Turner Podcast & now Pirate Stream Media, here to discuss her story and how it has shaped her work today. We discuss how her story overlaps with my own, and how our past drives us today to fight for those who do not […]
Posts Tagged ‘adversity’
Courtenay Turner Interview – Overcoming Adversity & The Drive To Change The World
Yemen’s disabled women basketball players overcoming adversity on court
In Yemen’s capital Sanaa, women in long-sleeved athletics shirts raced down a basketball court in wheelchairs, dribbling and passing as a small crowd cheered them on. “If the Yemeni people are suffering from the war, then those with disabilities are suffering twice as much,” said Amal Hizam from the sidelines, herself also in a wheelchair. […]
Why snowflakes are miserable: Psychologist explains how hardships and adversity give us meaning and perspective, toughen us up
(Natural News) There could be a reason why so many Trump-hating “resisters” are angry and belligerent all the time, beyond just the fact that they don’t like the president. If the perspective of Lowri Dowthwaite, a psychologist from the University of Central Lancashire in the United Kingdom, holds any merit, then the […]
Jerusalem Isn’t the Capital of the Jews
Research shows that Jerusalem has existed for about 4,000 years. During the first 1,000 it had no connection to the Jewish people. by Gideon Biger Once again Jerusalem Day arrived, and once again the prime minister repeated the clichéd mantra: “Jerusalem was and is the capital city of the Jewish people only.” […]