Do you sometimes fluctuate between depression and delusion? Are you trying to think positively but keep encountering setbacks? Do you have lots of internal conflicts about how to address problems? Well, dump the blues, rein in the everything-is-going-to-be-okay syndrome and try a different approach. Why and how to do it? Tune in to Lighting the Way, and share your thoughts as well. While you're here, take a look at our New Declaration of Independence, which lays out a positive vision to mobilize around. Sign and spread the Declaration. Let’s mobilize. Here's the link: ⁠⁠https://bit.ly/newdeclaration⁠⁠. Also, check out what you can do to co-create a better future. Go to ⁠⁠https://thestream.info/nextsteps⁠⁠. Participate in our online conversation on ⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠. Let’s mobilize. Write to Beth with any of your ideas as well at ⁠⁠⁠beth@thestream.info⁠⁠⁠. For tons of free content, go to ⁠⁠⁠https://HealingArtsNetwork.org⁠⁠⁠.

When it’s okay to assassinate people from one political party but not another, when it’s considered normal to charge people with crimes for protesting peacefully but genocide is condoned, when our government bombs other nations without provocation, we have entered a world that is upside-down from what many of us thought was normal for our nation. Is this a sudden change? Or were we like this before, but didn’t know it? Tune in for this and more on today’s Lighting the Way.

While you're here, take a look at our New Declaration of Independence, which lays out a positive vision to mobilize around. Sign and spread the Declaration. Let’s mobilize. Here's the link: ⁠⁠https://bit.ly/newdeclaration⁠⁠. Also, check out what you can do to co-create a better future. Go to ⁠⁠https://thestream.info/nextsteps⁠⁠. Participate in our online conversation on ⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠. Let’s mobilize. Write to Beth with any of your ideas as well at ⁠⁠⁠beth@thestream.info⁠⁠⁠. For tons of free content, go to ⁠⁠⁠https://HealingArtsNetwork.org⁠⁠⁠.

Life is full of disappointments, and we use many strategies to deal with them -- from blaming ourselves to blaming others, to rationalizing. and more. Let's look at seven of our strategies. What are the upsides and downsides of each? Let's talk about them, learn, laugh, and support one another.

While you're here, take a look at our New Declaration of Independence, which lays out a positive vision to mobilizearound. Sign and spread the Declaration. Let’s mobilize. Here's the link: ⁠⁠https://bit.ly/newdeclaration⁠⁠. Also, check out what you can do to co-create a better future. Go to ⁠⁠https://thestream.info/nextsteps⁠⁠. Participate in our online conversation on ⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠. Let’s mobilize. Write to Beth with any of your ideas as well at ⁠⁠⁠beth@thestream.info⁠⁠⁠. For tons of free content, go to ⁠⁠⁠https://HealingArtsNetwork.org⁠⁠⁠.

Join me in fighting against being a victim in your own mind. Like many others, I have been victimized by sexual abuse. And like many others, I have been repressed, suppressed and oppressed by others with more power. But like the women who have stood up to Jeffrey Epstein, Trump and others, I am not a victim, and I don’t want to be called that. Why? And what to do instead.

While you're here, take a look at our New Declaration of Independence, which lays out a positive vision to mobilizearound. Sign and spread the Declaration. Let’s mobilize. Here's the link: ⁠⁠https://bit.ly/newdeclaration⁠⁠. Also, check out what you can do to co-create a better future. Go to ⁠⁠https://thestream.info/nextsteps⁠⁠. Participate in our online conversation on ⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠. Let’s mobilize. Write to Beth with any of your ideas as well at ⁠⁠⁠beth@thestream.info⁠⁠⁠. For tons of free content, go to ⁠⁠⁠https://HealingArtsNetwork.org⁠⁠⁠.

Sometimes our minds or bodies react negatively to something that isn’t harmful. Sometimes we see danger in too many places. We can say we are being careful, but are we actually programmed to be unnecessarily fearful, and how can that impact our lives? Many of us have that issue and don’t recognize it. Do You? Tune in for More.

In the meantime, take a look at our New Declaration of Independence, which lays out a positive vision to mobilize around. Sign and spread the Declaration. Let’s mobilize. Here's the link: ⁠⁠https://bit.ly/newdeclaration⁠⁠. Also, check out what you can do to co-create a better future. Go to ⁠⁠https://thestream.info/nextsteps⁠⁠. Participate in our online conversation on ⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠. Let’s mobilize. Write to Beth with any of your ideas as well at ⁠⁠⁠beth@thestream.info⁠⁠⁠. For tons of free content, go to ⁠⁠⁠https://HealingArtsNetwork.org⁠⁠⁠.

Slavery and Jim Crow, the rise and fall of the Third Reich, plagues. What haven’t we faced and somehow survived? Is this time different? In the meantime, take a look at our NewDeclaration of Independence, which lays out a positive vision to mobilize around. Sign and spread the Declaration. Let’s mobilize. Here's the link: ⁠⁠https://bit.ly/newdeclaration⁠⁠. Also, check out what you can do to co-create a better future. Go to ⁠⁠https://thestream.info/nextsteps⁠⁠. Participate in our online conversation on ⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠. Let’s mobilize. Write to Beth with any of your ideas as well at ⁠⁠⁠beth@thestream.info⁠⁠⁠. For tons of free content, go to ⁠⁠⁠https://HealingArtsNetwork.org⁠⁠⁠.

A lot of us wake up every day wondering what is the next freedom of ours being threatened, what group is being targeted now and which rights are we losing today. And we want that world to go away. We can close our eyes, go to the beach and escape for a moment, but the beaches will be increasingly polluted, the forests will be increasingly logged and the environment will continue to be degraded at a faster rate. How to escape? Don’t escape. Let’s really make the world go away. Tune in for how.

In the meantime, take a look at our New Declaration of Independence, which lays out a positive vision to mobilizearound. Sign and spread the Declaration. Let’s mobilize. Here's the link: ⁠⁠https://bit.ly/newdeclaration⁠⁠. Also, check out what you can do to co-create a better future. Go to ⁠⁠https://thestream.info/nextsteps⁠⁠. Participate in our online conversation on ⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠. Let’s mobilize. Write to Beth with any of your ideas as well at ⁠⁠⁠beth@thestream.info⁠⁠⁠. For tons of free content, go to ⁠⁠⁠https://HealingArtsNetwork.org⁠⁠⁠.

What's the difference between capitulation and collaboration, and how are they happening in our nation today? At the same time, how many of us are standing strong and in what way? On this show, we will be talking about how WE can and ARE refusing to capitulate and the many different ways we are standing up for one another. Inspire and be inspired. In the meantime, take a look at our New Declaration of Independence, which lays out a positive vision to mobilize around. Sign and spread the Declaration. Let’s mobilize. Here's the link: ⁠⁠https://bit.ly/newdeclaration⁠⁠. Also, check out what you can do to co-create a better future. Go to ⁠⁠https://thestream.info/nextsteps⁠⁠. Participate in our online conversation on ⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠. Let’s mobilize. Write to Beth with any of your ideas as well at ⁠⁠⁠beth@thestream.info⁠⁠⁠. For tons of free content, go to ⁠⁠⁠https://HealingArtsNetwork.org⁠⁠⁠.