Inspiring Stories

Are those who laugh the hardest usually the ones masking the most pain? It’s no secret that we often turn to comedy to cope with the pressures of everyday life. For a few moments or so, we don’t have to worry about failing expectations or disappointing our loved ones — we can just watch a

Empathy is defined as the ability to understand and share the feelings of others. So what is an empath? Typically, there are two definitions.  The psychological definition of the term empath is someone who experiences an above-average level of empathy, to the extent of taking on other people’s pain or suffering to a possibly detrimental

Do you ever watch 90’s movies, get blown away by a particular actor or actress, and wonder what became of them? When Alicia Silverstone sashayed down the school halls in a sparkling yellow plaid outfit in Clueless, audiences knew. They thought they were seeing the genesis of America’s Next Sweetheart. She managed to stun the

Avril Lavigne has built an entire career out of singing angsty breakup tunes, but she’s not really keen on being ‘Complicated’ with her exes.  It’s safe to say that the Canadian singer hasn’t had the best luck with love in recent years. She’d been married and divorced not once but twice in her twenties. She

America has had nearly 200 mass shootings in 2021 so far, including one on May 6 at a school in Idaho that had a powerful conclusion thanks to a courageous and compassionate teacher. There was shooting in the hallway Krista Gneiting was preparing her students at Rigby middle school for their final exams when she

The letter contained a cryptic and foreboding message. Madonna and Tupac are two of the biggest names in the music industry, but contemporary audiences might not know that they had briefly pursued a romance in the nineties.  NEW YORK, NY – MARCH 01: (L-R) Raquel Welch, Madonna and Tupac Shakur at the Interview Magazine party

Police called a teenager a hero after he went to extraordinary lengths to stop a kidnapper. The woman was terrified Malyk Bonnet couldn’t help but notice a couple arguing while he was waiting for a bus in Laval, Quebec. “The guy was screaming at her, the girl. He wasn’t really gentle with her, and I started

Daring to love after trauma is an act of bravery. The question of how to open your heart again after you have been hurt in unthinkable ways, is a question that weighs heavily on people’s minds all across the world. Healing is a personal journey that takes place on our own specific time frames, but

Sometimes getting to your limit is exactly what you need in life. You get to the end of your metaphorical “rope” with an unhealthy or dysfunctional behavior, pattern or situation and then, like the flick of a switch, everything is different. Tiffany Hatfield found her end of the rope with her unhealthy lifestyle when the

Florida residents Kristen and Michael Grasso got the surprise of a lifetime through the mail one day when their county’s health department warned them their athletic daughter was at risk of becoming obese. Branding young kids obese A letter from Collier County Health Department in Naples warned that their 11-year-old daughter Lily was at risk