One of life’s constants is change. Ready or not, it happens. We grow. We age. Technology reinvents each new day. Some relish change; others resist. We like it best on our terms, but don’t always have that option. Sometimes all we can do is cope with it. When given the opportunity to exert our will in the matter, we’re wise to proceed with caution. Change for the sake of change is a risk – the grass on the fence’s other side isn’t always greener. The relentless pursuit for “better” can sometimes leave us bitter, regretting changes we didn’t need to make. Change isn’t inherently good or bad. It’s something that is inevitable. Problems are created by the speed at which it occurs and the threat it poses to those being asked to change. A helpful maxim is that the smoothest journey occurs when what you’re asking a person, organisation, or country to do, is almost as easy as not changing. Unfortunately, those who push for change are shocked when there’s blow-back. Even the most basic understanding of the principles of change would make transitions easier, whether it’s the head of a country proposing universal insurance, the CEO of a corporation after for more accountability from his employees, or a wife annoyed at her husband’s messiness. Progress is impossible without change. And those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.The phrase “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade” may not always be one you embrace—especially when an unexpected life situation arises. But no matter how difficult life feels, there’s something to be said for making the most out of the moment. This doesn’t mean you should lie down, get comfortable, and refrain from making changes in your life because everything is spiralling out of your control. What it does mean, is making changes to how you feel about it. When you can’t change your situation, you can make changes to your attitude. Roadblocks may make you feel out of control, defeated, and emotionally exhausted, but you don’t have to live there.My mother told me that she never knew what acceptance was until she’d been through the fire after an illness she couldn’t control. Like many people, she used to think that “accepting what you can’t change” means to accept that you have no control over your life; a surrender. But acceptance doesn’t mean you take whatever life is throwing at you at face value. It means you’re aware of when a circumstance is inalterable, but you remain grateful and aware of other things you can change to pull yourself through. It’s recognizing that sometimes, we aren’t in the cockpit of the plane (yes, I know it’s hard Judging types). But you can, and will, get through difficult life events.

count. Community service has become a major aspect of my life that has shaped me into who I am today. Volunteering is a way that I can give back to the world that does so much for me. There is no one way to define community service, because everyone has their own definition. However, it is not the definition itself that matters; it is what community service means to you. Is it the laughter of the special needs children when I help them learn and play? Is it the relationship I build with each member of BATAA who plays a big role in helping save the lives of young kids and teens in my community? Maybe it is the joy on the faces of the veterans when they win a round of bingo or the laughs at our events where we have competitions to raise money for a good cause. To me, volunteering and community service are all of these things. Volunteerism is a donation of my time in order to enhance someone’s life, even if it is only slightly. I view volunteering as a window through which I have an opportunity to change the lives of people, as well as my own. However, volunteering is not only about aiding others. It offers so much more. Through volunteering, I learned valuable community and social skills, and well as gained valuable work experience. I learned how to work with children, the elderly,families under pressure and stress, and those who struggle with depression and addiction as well as kids with special needs. In addition, I learned what it is like to have a job and responsibilities. Volunteering has played in a significant role in the shaping of who I am today. Community service has been a resource for me to express myself and gain control of my life. Volunteering is a significant way to make the world a better place and to grow as a person. I have impacted numerous lives through volunteering, and that is something that I take great pride in. Whether it was reading to children at the library, helping veterans play bingo, giving Thanksgiving meals to the less fortunate, or anything else, I made someone’s day better, and that is an amazing feeling. In addition, I have developed numerous skills through volunteer work. I feel as if I have grown significantly through my community service. Community service has shaped me into a responsible leader. I am grateful for all that volunteering has done for me.

For thousands of years, various spiritual traditions and social activists have appealed to humans to adopt compassionate ways of living to address the suffering of life. Yet, along with our potential for compassion and self-sacrifice, the last few thousand years of wars, slavery, tortures, and holocausts have shown humans can be extraordinarily selfish, callous, vicious, and cruel. While there has been considerable engagement with these issues, particularly in the area of moral psychology and ethics, this paper explores an evolutionary analysis relating to evolved resource-regulation strategies that can be called “care and share” versus “control and hold.” Control and hold are typical of primates that operate through intimidatory social hierarchies. Care and share are less common in non-human primates, but evolved radically in humans during our hunter-gatherer stage when our ancestors lived in relatively interdependent, small, mobile groups. In these groups, individualistic, self-focus, and self-promoting control and hold strategies (trying to secure and accumulate more than others) were shunned and shamed. These caring and sharing hunter-gatherer lifestyles also created the social contexts for the evolution of new forms of childcare and complex human competencies for language, reasoning, planning, empathy, and self-awareness. As a result of our new ‘intelligence’, our ancestors developed agriculture that reduced mobility, increased group size, resource availability and storage, and resource competition. These re-introduced competing for, rather than sharing of, resources and advantaged those who now pursue (often aggressively) control and hold strategies. Many of our most typical forms of oppressive and anti-compassionate behavior are the result of these strategies. Rather than (just) thinking about individuals competing with one another, we can also consider these different resource regulation strategies as competing within populations shaping psychophysiological patterns; both wealth and poverty change the brain. One of the challenges to creating a more compassionate society is to find ways to create the social and economic conditions that regulate control and hold strategies and promote care and share. No easy task.There is now considerable evidence that from the day we are born to the day we die the caring and sharing relationships we have with others around us effect our epigenetics, cardiovascular, immune and autonomic nervous systems, and multiple neural circuits underpinning health, prosocial behavior and happiness to pursue caring and sharing, rooted in compassion as a public good, it is helpful to understand its facilitators and its inhibitors, which are many and various. Fascinating isn’t it? I sure think it is.

I believe deeply that passion to express oneself is the most important human need. We express ourselves by chatting to friends or family, messaging and e-mailing. But, myself as a teenage girl who dreams of being an artist. I live with the passion of art. Like an aurora borealis, which shows puzzled colors, I could also express my puzzled feelings with my passion. I was tremendously more passionate about colors, imagination and emotional expression rather than chatting, messaging nor e-mailing as a young child. I believe sentiments can bring either illness to people or vitamins that make people energetic. If people do not share feelings and just hope others to notice without a word, others will never notice and people will get depressed. On the other hand, if people share feelings with others, everybody will be sanguine like they had taken vitamins. However, I had to express myself, as I was alone in a different country, where everything was different from my home. Nevertheless, wherever I was, I had passion to express my thoughts. My emotions on the canvas were a colorful tornado. The tornado was just about to suck up everything in the world but the target was in maze. I believe that having passion to express oneself makes humans alive. God created livings things to share expressions. Lust has a tremendous power that can change and satisfy humans. I believe without fervor to express, the world will be full of grey clouds covering happiness. Show More Check Writing QualityHow have one of my passions grown me? Well what is passion? Passion is defined as an intense desire or enthusiasm for something. Personally, passion is what motivates me to live. It makes me feel love and significant. I think passion is what makes us love. I have grown and matured through my greatest passion, the practices of art. Painting, writing, and drawing have all made me think with a higher consciousness. They have all shaped me into the person I am today. When you have a physical disability, It’s a challenge to show people who you are by your appearance. My art allows me to tell my deepest thoughts, in a way that can appeal to everyone. I’ve had to change my physical abilities, to satisfy my artistic abilities. Every piece of art has an inspiration that shapes it into beauty. Like Pablo Picasso said, “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” This quote resonates with my life. In the future, I know art will continue to grow greatly. I think my perspective of this world and the way I think of myself will grow the most.

believe that passion to express oneself is the most important human need. We express ourselves by chatting to friends or family, messaging and e-mailing. But, myself as a teenage girl who dreams of being an artist. I live with the passion of art. Like an aurora borealis, which shows puzzled colors, I could also express my puzzled feelings with my passion. I was passionate about colors, imagination and emotional expression rather than chatting, messaging nor e-mailing. I believe sentiments can bring either illness to people or vitamins that make people energetic. If people do not share feelings and just hope others to notice without a word, others will never notice and people will get depressed. On the other hand, if people share feelings with others, everybody will be sanguine like they had taken vitamins. However, I had to express myself, as I was alone in a different country, where everything was different from my home. Nevertheless, wherever I was, I had passion to express my thoughts. My emotions on the canvas were a colorful tornado. The tornado was just about to suck up everything in the world but the target was in maze. I believe that having passion to express oneself makes humans alive. God created livings things to share expressions. Lust has a tremendous power that can change and satisfy humans. I believe without fervor to express, the world will be full of grey clouds covering happiness. Show More Check Writing QualityHow have one of my passions grown me? Well what is passion? Passion is defined as an intense desire or enthusiasm for something. Personally, passion is what motivates me to live. It makes me feel love and significant. I think passion is what makes us love. I have grown and matured through my greatest passion, the practices of art. Painting, writing, and drawing have all made me think with a higher consciousness. They have all shaped me into the person I am today. When you have a physical disability, It’s a challenge to show people who you are by your appearance. My art allows me to tell my deepest thoughts, in a way that can appeal to everyone. I’ve had to change my physical abilities, to satisfy my artistic abilities. Every piece of art has an inspiration that shapes it into beauty. Like Pablo Picasso said, “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” This quote resonates with my life. In the future, I know art will continue to grow greatly. I think my perspective of this world and the way I think of myself will grow the most. I will also fall deeper in love with art. I predict that one day I will be able to make my living from my paintings and writing. That hope is what keeps me on the path of continuing my passion. So I ask you what is your passion and will you grow with it?

"Not what we can do, but what we must" I cannot even begin to explain the joy it brings us to be able to help kids & families in our community. N. Idaho B.A.T.A.A MC shopping with a biker is just one of the many things I am and get to be blessed with being a part of. In BATAA (BIKERS AGAINST TEEN ADDICTION AND ABUSE) the goal is to have the communities back and fight the good fight to keep it and the youth in it safe. I was once a troubled youth, missing from home, with a worried family praying for my safety and my return home. BATAA found me. I hope every day to be able to do what they did for me for another child’s family. These streets aren’t going to clean themselves up and sometimes the police aren’t able to help much in certain situations. The goal is to prevent kids from going down a dark path and keep the community safer one day at a time. This is not a club event but I took a stand at the kootenai hospital last year and here is why. It is truly difficult already to find treatment here in this area of cda lots in spokane but they have very long wait lists and are typically full. Losing one of very few treatment centers could truly devastate this community. Details: On May 11, 2022 it was announced to Kootenai Health staff that the Addiction Recovery Inpatient Unit would be "temporarily closing." This unit has officially stopped accepting any admissions to their 21 day inpatient program and staff are being told they can reposition within the hospital or resign. The Addiction Recovery Unit is the only place in the community that provides 24 hr medical (physician oversight, RN) , psychiatric (psychiatry, therapy) and emotional care (substance abuse counselors) to people struggling with addictions. This program has served this population for decades and has treated thousands of people with substance use disorders. With deaths related to opioids on the rise, a shortage of mental health providers and no other comparable resources, the community needs to let Kootenai Health know that they do not support this decision. Whether you have been a patient of this program, a family member of someone in recovery/active addiction, are actively struggling with addiction, a 12 step member, or a concerned community member please come and take a stand. Even if this doesn't change the outcome at least we can let Kootenai Health know that the public cares about people with addictions. This was not a political event and welcomed anyone. We brought signs of support for recovery and the Addiction Recovery Unit.

"Not what we can do, but what we must" I cannot even begin to explain the joy it brings us to be able to help kids & families in our community. N. Idaho B.A.T.A.A MC shopping with a biker is just one of the many things I am and get to be blessed with being a part of. In BATAA (BIKERS AGAINST TEEN ADDICTION AND ABUSE) the goal is to have the communities back and fight the good fight to keep it and the youth in it safe. I was once a troubled youth, missing from home, with a worried family praying for my safety and my return home. BATAA found me. I hope every day to be able to do what they did for me for another child’s family. These streets aren’t going to clean themselves up and sometimes the police aren’t able to help much in certain situations. The goal is to prevent kids from going down a dark path and keep the community safer one day at a time. This is not a club event but I’m taking a stand tomorrow at the kootenai hospital and here is why. It is truly difficult already to find treatment here in this area of cda lots in spokane but they have very long wait lists and are typically full. Losing one of very few treatment centers could truly devastate this community. Details: On May 11, 2022 it was announced to Kootenai Health staff that the Addiction Recovery Inpatient Unit would be "temporarily closing." This unit has officially stopped accepting any admissions to their 21 day inpatient program and staff are being told they can reposition within the hospital or resign. The Addiction Recovery Unit is the only place in the community that provides 24 hr medical (physician oversight, RN) , psychiatric (psychiatry, therapy) and emotional care (substance abuse counselors) to people struggling with addictions. This program has served this population for decades and has treated thousands of people with substance use disorders. With deaths related to opioids on the rise, a shortage of mental health providers and no other comparable resources, the community needs to let Kootenai Health know that they do not support this decision. Whether you have been a patient of this program, a family member of someone in recovery/active addiction, are actively struggling with addiction, a 12 step member, or a concerned community member please come and take a stand. Even if this doesn't change the outcome at least we can let Kootenai Health know that the public cares about people with addictions. This is not a political event and welcomes anyone. Please bring signs of support for recovery and the Addiction Recovery Unit.

I am about as Queer as a 4 dollar bill, 5’8” tall, ghost white, and paper thin woman from the Midwest. I have experienced discrimination based on my smaller than average size, sexual orientation, and class, more times than imaginable. Because of what it means to be intersectional—that is, multiple marginalized identities existing at once—it is nearly impossible to determine whether I am experiencing discrimination and mistreatment on the basis of me being unapologetically extra or queer; and many times, both. In an ever-expanding and gentrifying Spokane, Washington , where I now reside, it’s commonplace to be followed by law enforcement and be watched as I’m entering more expensive stores because I’m different and come from a lower class. While browsing in the mall I was once told to leave a store because I “was taking too long looking” just to be mocked by other staff. Not only was I in this particular store for less than 10 minutes, I was certainly not the only one. I was profiled, targeted, and belittled because of where I was and who I was perceived to be. No one defended me, no one made me feel human; and these are not isolated incidences. Every day, LGBTQ people wake up understanding that we can be targeted at the intersection of our identities, and it is a perpetual process of healing and understanding. Being a part of the LGBTQ+ community was a lot harder to deal with in my younger years vs. how much more acceptable it’s become today. My mother and my siblings bullied me for being bisexual and often made remarks about the way I dress and the individual relationships I’ve had. Going to school was hard enough without constantly getting picked on and teased for my sexuality. I’ve always had struggles with my identity and how comfortable I am about being open because of the years growing up in a biased environment. Growing up I didn’t have much of a shoulder to stand on for support when it came to just wanting to be myself openly. I will never forget what it felt like to be generalized in the outcast category for the simple fact of liking the same sex. What an horrible way to be treated and also to treat people. I think the world just needs a big group hug and I hope to one day use my newly begun education to promote and be a support to everyone struggling to find positive confidence in themselves or their identity or their sexuality. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

In the song “Ill Mind of Hopsin 5” by Hopsin he expresses his emotions and today’s problems mostly by rhyming or using figurative language. While listening to his song you begin to notice he mostly uses metaphors, similes, first person, hyperboles,sensory imagery,rhetorical questions and personification.When he talks about how everyone thinks that if they are not having sex, drugs,money,gangs or violence they don’t have nothing. He stated ,” When I say the word fun, what do you envision?”. …. “Is that all you think life really is?” Taking a closer look at the text you see that the youth envisions having all these unnecessary things society has let be normal like being on drugs to have fun and if they don't have it they can't have fun.This music isn’t something that should be categorized in the same fields as artists who promote the same behaviors . Music is only leaving a negative impact on the youth when life actually has a greater meaning. Another rhetorical question that sticks out to me that hopsin uses is when he says,”And now you think it's gon’ magically happen to you? How? Every day we see that the youth in today’s generation doesn't want to put in any effort to get to their goals they rather chose an easy way to get to the top than to put in the work to get there and have earned it. This is by far one of my favorite songs.

My addiction battle began at the age of 10. That’s when when I started smoking cigarettes. Quickly more and more substances added to the list. At 12 I was put on probation for being charged with a misdemeanor run away. 5 1/2 years were spent on probation. 5 1/2 years of off and on failing drug test after drug test, spending birthdays and Christmas’s and thanksgivings in Kootenai county District 1 Juvenile Detention Center. 5 1/2 years of being fed different kinds of medications by therapists like I was their lab rat. It wasn’t until I went to treatment that anything got better for me. The pills before made it easy to want to get high, the pressure of probation,therapy, home life, and school made it harder to want to be sober. Treatment saved my life. Literally.

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Personally I have two back to school tips, 1) Get ready for an earlier sleep schedule and morning routine now or it will be too late. 2) Read your syllabus and write out assignments by due dates in a planner or app. The answer as to why I think that these are the best back-to-school tips is because if you can’t stay on top of your classes assignments and sleep schedule you’ll end up waking up late for classes missing assignments and falling behind early which could lead to finishing very late.

Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make healthy choices. Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood. Although the terms are often used interchangeably, poor mental health and mental illness are not the same. A person can experience poor mental health and not be diagnosed with a mental illness. Likewise, a person diagnosed with a mental illness can experience periods of physical, mental, and social well-being. I deal with the battles and dives In my mental health by mediation and counseling, among a number of other coping skills and healthy tools I’ve learned over the years.

Mental illness runs deep in my family roots, in 2005 my uncle Blake committed suicide, as teenagers both my parents were addicted to hard drugs, me and my siblings have all seen therapist after therapist and cycled through a number of medications from young ages to present day. Mental illness has put limitations on my ability to do and be certain things in life and my relationships. But I’m not going to let a list of diagnoses from someone in an office stop me from going to college.

As a young girl I quickly learned to accept disappointment, I learned to accept the fact that I was a second priority in my parents lives because drugs took their first pick, and I was starting to accept the fact that things weren’t changing. But this won’t be the only time In my life where this has happened.

I’ve been tinkering and exploring the world of technology for years and it’s taught me wonderful things. I know so many useful hacks and skills now.

In the past 3 years I’ve lost over 10 close family members and friends. The impact that it’s had on me has been severe and for the first two years that effect lead me down a dark road. After overcoming my addiction and coinciding severe mental illnesses through treatment and therapy, I’ve decided to take life and live it to the fullest. Each day could be my last and I don’t want to leave this planet without accomplishing something I’m passionate about. For me that’s always been my education.

I believe every animal deserves someone who loves him or her. They always forgive you and are always there for you, why shouldn’t we be there for them? I am an animal lover; I always have been, since I was a little girl. I have grown up with many animals in my house and have been taught to care for and love them by my parents, also animal lovers. For me, animals have always been there for me. Whether I was angry and depressed, they will listen in their own way. They never get mad, or yell at you, they just quietly listen and comfort you. I have grown up loving animals and will continue to protect them throughout my life.

I believe every animal deserves someone who loves him or her. They always forgive you and are always there for you, why shouldn’t we be there for them? I am an animal lover; I always have been, since I was a little girl. I have grown up with many animals in my house and have been taught to care for and love them by my parents, also animal lovers. For me, animals have always been there for me. Whether I was angry and depressed, they will listen in their own way. They never get mad, or yell at you, they just quietly listen and comfort you. I have grown up loving animals.

The distinguishing attribute of LGBTQ people is that we have non-heterosexual sexual orientations. Another community characteristic of members of the LGBTQ is that we share in a belief, which is that people should not be discriminated against because of their sexual preferences. In addition to this, the LGBTQ is a community since it is made up of a relatively small segment of the society. I will fully embrace every single persons right within this community to be themselves and be accepted.