#bebravestories

Helping Toxic People Even When They Didn’t Help You – Be Brave Friday

It’s Be Brave Friday where Shaun or I (from Dogs are Smarter than People and Loving the Strange and just being an author in Maine) share people’s unedited, unfiltered stories, so we can all celebrate the big and little brave things we do all the time. Sometimes we don’t even realize we’re being brave. Here’s Jordan’s brave story and we are so grateful, Jordan, for you trusting us and sending it…

Life is About More Than How To and How To Be.

On BE BRAVE FRIDAYS, we share other people’s stories (unedited) to build a community of bravery and inspiration. Please let us know if you want to share your story with us and we’ll read it here and post it on our social media and website. We don’t edit these because we want people’s stories to be heard as they tell them. This life is too short to not be brave. We can do this together. This…

Be Brave Friday: Don’t Small Down Your Self or Your World

On BE BRAVE FRIDAYS, we share other people’s stories (unedited) to build a community of bravery and inspiration. Please let us know if you want to share your story with us and we’ll read it here and post it on our social media and website. This life is too short to not be brave. We can do this together. This week’s Be Brave Story is from the wonderful Sheri Boggs! Sheri, thank you so much for…

Love Your Way Through It. Let's change the world together.

I am not a therapist or a minister an influencer or a teacher, a psychiatrist or a medical professional. At all. I’m just a normal human living a pretty normal life where there are ups and downs and cataclysmic events and occasionally monotony. But I’ve learned something. I’ve learned that love is a powerful force and that even when you rage and sob, even when anxiety makes you pace across the…