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January 26, 2021 Community stories / Family / Healing

Living with Vertigo

By Marcela Sifuentes About 40 percent of the U.S. population may suffer from vertigo or vertigo-associated diseases at least once

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January 19, 2021 Community stories / Healing

Resilience with Health Challenges

By Bella Martinez Bella shares her father’s story dealing with several health issues in a short audio story. Today I’ll

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January 7, 2021 Healing

Happy Chemicals Through Anxiety

By Alayna Currey Alayna shares her experiences dealing with anxiety as a college student in a short audio story. Hi,

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December 31, 2020 Community stories / Healing / Race

Eat Your Vegetables

By Chelsee Peck Chelsee interviewed her grandmother, Cynthia Williams Linear, in a short audio story (transcript available) about her journey

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December 17, 2020 Family / Healing

Out of Darkness Through Music

By Bryan Clinthorne Bryan shares a short audio story (transcript available) about the darkest days in his life, and his

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December 8, 2020 Family / Healing / Pandemic

A Year Alone

By Sidney Richardson The COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it significant changes to nearly every aspect of life in 2020.

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November 12, 2020 Acceptance / Healing / Identity

Hair, Wigs, Embracing Baldness

By Brynn Wooten This is Reece Wooten’s story. I got my first bald spot when I was 14 years old,

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July 21, 2020 Community stories / Family / Healing / Immigration / Religion / Suburban

Mexican, Spanish, Super Mexican…

By Page Gardner Vanessa Rodriguez showed me around her home, pointing at different decor and specifying, “this is Mexican,” “this

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July 14, 2020 Community stories / Family / Healing / Immigration

“People Die”: Memories of War

By Nicole Morsfield Immigration is no singular experience. To some, it’s carrying baskets of clothing up and down 30 floors

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July 7, 2020 Family / Healing / Immigration

Acculturative Stress and Immigration

By Anthony Dombrowski We all have an immigrant story. Every family has a different and unique story about their history

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