In 2017, he found himself struggling with loneliness. By the world’s standards, it seemed as if he had it all – a beloved family, a successful medical career, a best-selling book about loneliness, disconnection, and isolation. He had just completed a term as the 19th Surgeon General of the United States, a pinnacle of success…
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“Later that nightI held an atlas in my lapran my fingers across the whole worldand whisperedwhere does it hurt?It answeredeverywhereeverywhereeverywhere.” ~Warshan Shire Day 1 of Someone To Tell It To’s compassionate training, offered to the general public (virtually), drew to a close. With ten minutes remaining, each of the attendees from eight U. S states and…
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On this last day of Women’s History Month we highlight a woman who was a champion and pioneer in an often-overlooked movement. Judy Heumann spent decades reforming a political establishment indifferent to the circumstances of people living with disabilities and won one victory after another, ultimately joining the very establishment she once struggled with, died…
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There’s an exchange in the recent Academy Award© – winning Animated Short Documentary film, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse, between the boy and the horse, that spoke directly to us the moment we heard it. It continues to linger in our minds, which is why we write today. While, at first…
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Three weeks ago, there was an article published locally, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where Someone To Tell It To’s headquarters are located in the United States. It was about a nearby school district where some parents are suing the district over a character-building curriculum for the students, a curriculum promoting empathy and other civility attributes. One…
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He was broke and blamed himself for getting fired from his job. So, he killed five people in Orlando, Florida, on June 5, 2017. He was withdrawn and quiet, with no friends. He killed nine people and injured eight in Roseburg, Oregon, on October 1, 2015. He had PTSD from fighting in Vietnam. He killed four…
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The past few years leadership experts such as Simon Sinek have written books and spoken extensively about the need to ask “WHY?” questions, which give leaders permission to dream, vision, create a better world than what we’ve had before. Thanks to each of them, I’ve been given permission to be me – the idealist, the…
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It grows increasingly difficult to know what to say each time yet another mass shooting occurs in this country. This week there have been two shootings in California in three days with 18 people dead so far, bringing the total to 37 lives ended in the United States by mass shootings in just 23 days…
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For years, as each year is coming to a close, Nicholas Kristof, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, has written a commentary reminding readers that no matter how awful, chaotic, or disastrous the year may have been, it was still the best year that history has ever known. Kristof doesn’t deny the terrible circumstances that resulted during…
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