"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." – Thomas Edison Imagine facing a series of unfortunate events where no matter what you ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lesley Broff is a licensed social worker who graduated from The University of Pittsburgh with her Masters degree in Social Work.

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A few years ago some friends got a new Golden Retriever puppy named Sugar. When I first met Sugar, she was a ball of fur and energy. Picture this: a golden streak dashing across the yard, eyes ...

Tragedy and crisis are at the top, middle, and bottom of the news. It is deeply personal, profoundly overwhelming, and angering. Importantly, people with connections to the international war zones or ...

Learned helplessness. I’d heard the term before, but conflated it with weaponized incompetence, a phenomenon where someone (usually the male partner in a hetero relationship) exerts little or no ...