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What Does It Mean To Live With A Body That Can’t Be Fixed?

Three new books by Ada Limón, Sonya Huber, and Sandra Gail Lambert change the narrative around what it means to live with illness — and be well.

Posted on September 28, 2018, at 11:30 a.m. ET

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Writer Susan Sontag’s notion that we each reside “in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick” has become shorthand in essays like the one I’m writing. In the context of chronic pain or of disability, the usefulness of this statement as a reference point rests on the word “and.” Thinking about being well and sick opens up possibilities of moving back and forth between the two kingdoms or even of living in both at once. Sontag's essay in the New York Review of Books also points to the ways people are treated based on the kingdom in which they are assumed to reside, whether temporarily or for a lifetime. Forty years after that essay was published, I continue to grapple with its implications — as the daughter of someone with a disability and as someone who has struggled with chronic illness myself, and when reading other people’s experiences of illness. That’s why I welcome three new books that each offer a different prism through which to view sickness and disability. The authors of these books are not merely surviving with chronic conditions, but thriving. Their books counter traditional narratives that equate illness with weakness and women with hysteria by providing complicated, lived contexts in which illness or pain is not the be-all and end-all but, rather, one aspect among many in their lives.

In which kingdom do writers like Ada Limón, Sonya Huber, and Sandra Gail Lambert reside? Limón has severe curvature of the spine and recurrent bouts of vertigo; she started seeing a physical therapist for scoliosis when she was 17 years old. Huber has rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune disorder that damages the lining of the joints; her symptoms began five years before she wrote Pain Woman Takes Your Keys. Because of the long-term effects of a childhood polio infection, Lambert uses a wheelchair and seeks treatment from acupuncturists and chiropractors when her “arm is not back to regular, whatever that was.” Their superbly written books — Limón’s The Carrying, Huber’s Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays from a Nervous System, and Lambert’s A Certain Loneliness — show us that there’s no clear border between the well and the sick. These are books that reside in the space of and. They elucidate the possibilities of lingering in limbo between sick and well, and they shift the idea of what “normal” could look like.

Because these three writers face unpredictable disability with no end date, they must focus on the problem of living.

Importantly, though her essay is applied broadly now, Sontag focused on tuberculosis and cancer, two diseases that have historically been seen as death sentences. Anya Silver, a poet who lived eight years with metastatic breast cancer, writes in her stunning poetry collection Second Bloom, published last year, “I don’t dread death more than you do.” In it, Silver makes clear she knows she will not be cured, that regular life is a past she cannot return to. She states bluntly that she doesn’t “know why I’m still alive.” Her acknowledgment of her proximity to death is an arresting statement from the kingdom of the sick, in a work that centers her experience as a person expecting death even as she embraces each moment. (She died of the disease in August.) But what of those who must live on with illness, as Limón, Huber, and Lambert do with chronic vestibular neuritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and the lingering effects of a poliomyelitis infection, respectively?

Because these three writers face unpredictable disability with no end date, they must focus on the problem of living. Limón, Huber, and Lambert get around; they aren’t picking out urns or plots. They have, as Huber notes, “the language of lifespan.” They are also among the more than 1 in 10 Americans who experience chronic pain, defined by the National Institutes of Health as having pain daily for three months. That’s more than 25 million of us who, in the words of Huber, have a body that “shifts, rankles, resigns itself to a grade that does not fit its effort, its hope.”

That these three authors are women is crucial to their explorations of disability, illness, and pain and how they are treated, both in a formal sense by health care providers and in an informal sense by family, friends, and strangers. The gender disparities in patient care have been documented in numerous studies over many years. As an article last year on the Harvard Health Blog summarized, women are less likely to receive pain treatment than men, are more likely to be prescribed sedatives instead of painkillers, and tend to have to wait longer for pain treatment.

These writers are sick — dizzy, in pain — and they write of being perceived as sick, not normal, not up to code. Yet in focusing on family, work, nature, and the challenges of living, these writers have created testaments to living well, even beautifully, if imperfectly, in a society obsessed with fixing itself.

Huber’s essay collection is the most focused on pain and disability, with every essay addressing the topic directly in an intensity of accumulation that mirrors her own chronic pain itself. Women’s pain is often doubted, as if we’re crying wolf as a group, and treatment is sometimes designed to calm us down as much as it is to address the pain. The experiences that Limón, Huber, and Lambert share with readers are experiences of gendered bodies in pain, of people whose social identity — their roles, their perceptions of themselves, others’ perceptions of them — is shaped by being women shuffling among specialists.

Limón writes about the antagonistic relationship between herself and her body: “I am in a raging battle / with my body, a spinal column thirty-five degrees / bent, vertigo that comes and goes.” The battle offers an intriguing metaphor for our relationship with illness. It’s one thing to battle cancer or infection, but what if the body itself — one’s own, unfixable spine, joints, or muscles — is the enemy, as Limón suggests? The ways we think about the atypical body can put us at war with ourselves as well as with the world around us — especially in how we are forced to perform our illnesses.

Not appearing weak feels paramount to living a successful life.

Limón’s The Carrying includes numerous poems about how her bent spine and dizziness are intertwined with her life. She writes: “Invisible pain is both / a blessing and a curse.” Having been to urgent care, the poem’s speaker — Limón herself, we can assume from interviews like the one at Publisher’s Weekly from July in which she talks about her bouts of vertigo — has a purse full of pills. “Wonder Woman” is a short, beautifully wrought poem that conveys human frailty and also a power we share. In it, she thinks about the invisibility of her pain: “You always look so happy, / said a stranger once as I shifted to my good side / grinning.” In these lines, she hides her physical reality, and the other person doesn’t understand or ignores her body’s shift. Limón smiles, keeping up the charade. Pain, while felt fiercely, can go unnoticed not only by strangers but by friends and coworkers who may find others’ discomfort uncomfortable fodder for an otherwise pleasant interaction. The not noticing seems like less of a hassle, less uncomfortable, and less dangerous for everyone involved. Not appearing weak, then, feels paramount to living a successful life. Yet, line after line, Limón challenges this notion of what a vulnerable woman can be.

A woman in pain may seem vulnerable, like a mouse or like mousy Beth March in Little Women, whose “pain claimed her for its own,” or she may seem untrustworthy like Serena Williams, whose nurse thought pain medication was making her confused about blood clot history and symptoms of pulmonary embolism. “When a person confesses to being sick,” Huber writes, “she is seen as less reliable, less capable, and therefore less of a person within the social and production networks of the well.” In fact, a recent review of 77 scientific articles about pain bears this out, with women portrayed in peer-reviewed studies as sensitive, emotional, unfit, and self-doubting in comparison with seemingly stoic, self-assured men. These descriptions in the scientific medical literature may have blossomed in the 1990s, because, before that, women were not regularly included in medical research on human subjects.

In A Certain Loneliness, Lambert tries to explain her pain to her mother, who can’t seem to understand its source or symptoms. She’s confused and upset by Lambert’s tiredness, which “seems to be going on forever.” Lambert, who has recovered from the polio infection of her childhood, has a body forever changed by it. She has moved from leg braces to crutches to a wheelchair, and eventually an electric one. Her pain level varies, though it is sometimes debilitating in the wake of exertion. She won’t be hopping back over to live completely in wellness, particularly as her mother defines it. “Each day how to grocery shop and cook was something to solve,” Lambert writes. We see this attempt to solve in action while she works at a bookstore or on camping trips with friends and, later, alone. In one passage, she describes a dinner party, aware she may not host many more. Her old friends understand the time and effort it takes to set the table, make the food, and open the door, but her new friends admit they almost canceled at the last minute, as if it were no big deal to reschedule. As her longtime friends meet Lambert’s eyes, she feels embarrassed that “they know how much heartbreak that would have been.” This moment of unintentional hurt lingers, one of many in this memoir that evokes tremendous emotional power in highlighting the seemingly banal choices we make and how they adversely affect the sick, those in pain, and those with a disability. From person to person, situation to situation, Lambert adjusts what she wants others in her life to know or think they know, playing with the possibilities inherent in the space of and. “There’s a pleasure in being both known and unknown,” she writes.

The porousness of the border between well and sick calls into question how we define wellness and normalcy generally.

The porousness of the border between well and sick — the possibility that one might be well and sick at once, straddle good days and bad, or perform against type — calls into question how we define wellness and normalcy generally. Such definitions go back at least to the anatomical drawings of the 18th and 19th centuries, which used bodies of executed criminals and unclaimed deceased hospital patients as models for rendering images in which body parts were idealized for greater medical understanding. These images present the body as static: either as healthy or as diseased. Additionally, “Single body parts replaced whole, articulated cadavers. Faces, if they were shown at all, were depicted in a state of sleep or death,” writes Richard Barnett in The Sick Rose. Conventions for these medical illustrations, such as the color blue for veins and yellow for nerves, were “the results of artists and anatomists seeking to connect the facts of a single dead body with the wider truths on which medicine was coming to insist.” The artist’s version of a particular example (based on a cadaver, not a living person) became emblematic or generalizable, and the assumption that there existed a typical human body — and therefore an atypical body — was embedded in these anatomical maps, and became references physicians used to treat living patients.

Today, modern-day imaging can look deeper to reveal whether a body is healthy, but what happens when it cannot pick up what is imperceptible? In “From the Ash Inside the Bone,” Limón writes of her chronic vertigo: “MRI says my brain’s hunky-dory / so it’s just these bouts sometimes.” In other words, the anatomical rendering of her brain reveals that she is healthy, but that conclusion doesn’t sync with Limón’s experience of her body or, rather, her body’s experience in the world. The doctor has run some tests, seen nothing physiologically faulty or treatable, and determines that she’s well, while her world continues spinning. Health care providers look for ways to explain a problem, but symptoms the physician can’t see through imaging, blood work, or observation leave the problem largely untreatable in a meaningful way. The physician’s relationship is to the visible disease or defect, rather than to the patient and her needs.

Huber, meanwhile, writes of trying to appear healthier than she is so that her pain is a medical challenge her doctors can explain and manage and also so that she, as a person, doesn’t seem unmanageable. After all, there exists a history of treating women for hysteria. Women patients deemed hysterical were treated for supposedly making up or exaggerating complaints or being generally unreliable or, worse, troublesome. Huber hesitates to complain much, to appear troublesome, “because I don’t want to close off access to my current level of treatment. Not ever again. I am terrified in the doctor’s office. I go in and minimize. I shrug … for fear of being branded emotional, hysterical, psychosomatic.” In the physician’s office, Huber tries to perform as a patient with the simplest case of rheumatoid arthritis she can muster, a person willing to work hard to get better. Even her rheumatologist focuses on the disease rather than the attendant symptoms, as if pain is not enough, in and of itself, to treat in order for Huber to move through daily life more comfortably. “I am perfectly okay with the fact that I might not be fixable,” she writes, knowing that rheumatoid arthritis isn’t curable. But what does it mean to be officially labeled unfixable in a society so invested in being fixed?

Lambert, who balances humor, sadness, anger, and joy throughout her memoir, faces antagonism when she applies for social security disability, a process in which she must be deemed impaired (impairment is the government’s term) enough to warrant resources. The forms “were designed to catch me in a lie,” she writes. And in order to prove herself worthy of financial resources, she must prove that the impairment is not merely the result of an unwillingness to fix herself, but that she attempted a fix and has still come up short. In one passage, Lambert notes instructions for the physician’s inspection that tell her “to bathe and wear clean clothes.” This would not be worth noting — unless, of course, one’s disability made it difficult to bathe and dress, a reason for the application in the first place. While she must prove that she is not well, she must still be able to take care of herself in a way that keeps up appearances. Now in her sixties, Lambert writes incisively about years of making her way in the world with crutches, braces, and a wheelchair. “The more I used the wheelchair,” she writes, “the more my life expanded.” While these devices are often seen as signs of confinement, restriction, or deficiency, physical aids can be liberating. At first, Huber says of getting a cane, “I didn’t want to be a slow, three-legged girl.” Then she sets the cane’s tip on the ground and leans into it. “Pressure eased,” she writes. “I could walk with a bit more balance.” That expansion wasn’t always easy for these women, and it took a year to “wrest a real power wheelchair from Medicare” that allowed Lambert to host dinner parties and go kayaking on her own.

Lambert talks about the body’s need for touch and the importance of skin.

Both Lambert and Huber also talk candidly about the physicality of sex. Lambert writes, “The sun’s heat on a bare shoulder recalls a kiss, after sex, when lips become soft and wide.” She writes of her intimate relationships, the bodies of other women, and why these relationships flourished and faltered. She talks about the body’s need for touch and the importance of skin. She calculates hugs, and she sits on the couch at parties so that she can rub shoulders with friends. Lambert does not take intimacy for granted.

Huber, on the other hand, admits, “I had taken my hips completely for granted.” After establishing a “wild and crazy” sex life while dating her husband before she developed rheumatoid arthritis, “Suddenly issues of endurance, certain positions, and even whether I could have sex on a certain day were all completely unreliable and nonnegotiable.” Like Lambert, Huber explores the effort that physical intimacy requires: “Desire is a different substance now, a process requiring attention and effort. It is no longer a thoughtless release.” In fact, Huber’s essay “A Pain-Sex Anti-Manifesto” is a must-read; it demonstrates that sex can be an art and, more generally, that individuals can sew “up the ways of loving each other,” no matter what body they have.

Huber considers intimacy and touch broadly, while Lambert’s chapters about camping, kayaking, and swimming capture the importance and splendor of intimacy with our surroundings. “The remembered rhythm moves through me, moves me through the water,” she says of swimming in a river. “I’ve arrived. … Tomorrow, the next day, for the next week, I’ll hurt from this. Today, however, I know who I am.” Limón writes of a similarly invigorating experience as a gardener in her poem “The Burying Beetle.” While weeding, she finds herself “missing everyone I know.” She goes on, “Sure, I know / what it is to be lonely, but today’s special / is a physical need to be touched by someone / decent, a pulsing palm to the back.” She lies down in her garden. Loneliness is a certainty in life, and pleasure is awareness of one’s own body and connection with its surroundings.

These authors know and appreciate their bodies as deeply as I hope to know and appreciate my own one day, regardless of my level of wellness. These books about striving and taking care of oneself, sometimes while staying in bed, do not reveal these women as heroes (okay, Limón is a little heroic in “Wonder Woman”), nor are they lucky their situations aren’t worse (yes, polio could have killed Lambert). In fact, sometimes things are worse, and there’s little reason to be calm, composed, or grateful, even if that’s what the doctor, friends, or strangers would prefer. These women are not drama queens, as Donald Trump suggested about a Washington Post reporter who has an inherited joint disorder. Their conditions are not the means for redemption nor a way to get attention. These assumptions about disability and pain reveal how little we want to acknowledge disability or pain, as if awareness of someone else’s physicality, awareness of each other’s unfixability, burdens us.

Traditional narratives we have been told about the well and the sick need revision. The Carrying, Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and A Certain Loneliness implore us to throw out age-old myths about pain, chronic illness, and disability. Readers will see that the question of well and sick is not about either/or but, instead, about living on the continuum that holds space for both. Gaining a deeper understanding of one’s own pain or someone else’s has the potential to radically alter our interactions day to day, and to shift our focus away from a desperate need to be fixed and also from the exhausting performance of wellness into a more manageable way of living a fully realized life. ●

Anna Leahy is the author of Tumor and Aperture, and co-author of Conversing with Cancer. She directs the MFA in Creative Writing program at Chapman University in Orange, California.

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1 tbsp. lemon juice
Grated peel of 1/2 lemon
Pinch of salt

Chestnut pudding
10 1/2 oz. peeled chestnuts (fresh or frozen)
3/4 cup medium brown sugar
5 tbsp. butter, softened
3 1/2 tbsp. skinned, ground almonds
1 tsp. vanilla extract or 1/2 vanilla bean
2 pinches of salt
5 eggs

Chef Luca Crestanelli acknowledges a fondness for the rich, complex flavor of chestnuts, which are abundant in his native Italy. But can the persimmon sorbet stand on its own? "Yes, absolutely."

For sorbet: Combine water and sugar in a saucepan and bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Cook until sugar dissolves completely, 5 to 10 minutes. Remove from heat and cool to room temperature. Slice persimmons, leaving skin on and removing seeds if needed. In a blender or food processor, blend fruit with syrup until smooth and silky. Transfer to a bowl and add lemon juice, lemon peel and salt. Mix until well combined. Chill in the freezer for 3 to 4 hours, stirring with a spatula every 30 to 40 minutes to keep ice crystals from forming and to freeze sorbet uniformly. If using a home ice-cream maker, freeze according to manufacturer's instructions.

For pudding: Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Place chestnuts in a saucepan and add milk to cover. Cook over medium heat until chestnuts are tender, 5 to 10 minutes for packaged, precooked versions. Drain. Puree chestnuts in a blender or food processor. Pour puree in a mixing bowl with brown sugar, butter, almonds, vanilla and a pinch of salt. Mix until blended. Separate eggs. Beat yolks and add to chestnut mixture. Beat whites with a pinch of salt until stiff peaks form. Gently fold into chestnut mixture. Pour into individual ramekins (or a round, ovenproof baking dish). Place in a water bath in a baking pan and bake for 20 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.

To serve: Place a ramekin of chestnut pudding on a serving plate with a scoop of sorbet—either on top of the warm pudding or on the side.

Serves 4

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We all want to believe that our company’s culture is an inspiring beacon, shining out across a dark corporate landscape—that our quarterly rock-paper-scissors tournament elevates our brand and attracts the best talent, that our foosball table in the middle of our open floorplan will compel recruits to join just to get their turn.

Truth is, some of us are doing it wrong. Remember that foosball tables and free lunches are window dressing; if there’s no real meaning or mission behind these efforts, they can be seen as superficial or—even worse—hypocritical. To help you avoid common company-culture pitfalls, we’re taking a moment today to explain what not to do. Here are 5 ways that businesses swing and miss when trying to build a company culture.

  1. Failing to provide purpose. A mission statement is a start, but how does the overall purpose of your business trickle down to your employees? We all want a good reason to get out of bed in the morning, Every job description should tie directly to why you’re in business and every employee should understand exactly how they contribute to that purpose—and should be given multiple opportunities to speak out.
  2. Failing to build trust. Employees want, and deserve, to be treated like adults. But some companies implement punitive or micromanaging policies that feel designed to find fault. This makes for a cultural climate that’s no fun, and it dissuades employees from taking even the most measured risks—which prevents innovation. Some companies have figured this out—Netflix for example, where employees are given the flexibility of unlimited vacation days. This doesn’t result in an empty office, but in a culture of responsibility, where everyone does what they need to do, making sure all their bases are covered—so that they can enjoy themselves as a reward.
  3. Clearly well communicating—not very. For employees, there’s very little more frustrating than walking into the office to find that something big has changed—and you weren’t made aware. No matter how fast-paced your business is, take the time to clearly explain changes to your entire staff, and then ask for feedback. The often-cited Rule of Seven suggests that it takes repetition to have an audience really understand your  message—or buy what you’re selling. Following up a discussion with emails and even posters (depending on the situation) can help remind people of the change.
  4. Adopting substandard technology. It’s hard to do your job well if you don’t have the appropriate tools. Finally getting around to that Windows 95 upgrade isn’t going to help retention (or efficiency for that matter). Your employees want to have faith that you’re moving in the right direction; and they don’t want to be frustrated at every turn by substandard interfaces, buggy integrations, and obsolete workflows.
  5. Neglecting culture at the top. Whether we’re talking purpose, participation, or communication strategies, having one standard for employees and another for a select group of managers undermines your culture at the deepest levels. If you don’t care, why should your employees? Set a good example—and be obvious about it. Let your company know that culture matters, mission matters, and—as integral members of your culture—they matter. You’ll get the best out of them, and your business.

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WPP AUNZ acquires New Zealand martech specialist Dominion

The deal adds Adobe Experience Manager expertise to AKQA’s Auckland studio.

L-R: Marcel Blake, CEO and Founder of Dominion, Stephen Forth, MD of AKQA New Zealand
L-R: Marcel Blake, CEO and Founder of Dominion, Stephen Forth, MD of AKQA New Zealand

WPP AUNZ announced the acquisition of Dominion, a New Zealand company with expertise in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM). Dominion will be absorbed into AKQA's Auckland operation.

“Acquiring Dominion supports our strategy of combining technology and commerce with experience and communication services," Jens Monsees, CEO of WPP AUNZ, said in a release. "New Zealand clients are advancing quickly in this space and this acquisition is as an investment to support this important market.”

Dominion was established in 2011 by Marcel Blake and claims the biggest AEM development team in the market. Blake becomes operations director within AKQA, reporting to Stephen Forth, MD of AKQA New Zealand.

The combination of the companies, according to Brian Vella, AKQA's APAC managing partner, gives the agency a market-leading offer for creating digital experiences across all brand interactions, from acquisition through retention.

AKQA has already been recognised as achieving Adobe Campaign Specialisation status, Vella added.

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Sky is in talks with Facebook about launching a permanent branded presence on the social-networking site created for students.

The satellite broadcaster is running its first ad campaign on the site to gauge whether the site's 3.7m monthly unique users are willing to interact with its brand.

If the trials are successful, Sky intends to invest in the development of a Facebook group to promote its premium subscription services, flagship programmes and bundled TV, broadband and telephony package.

The broadcaster plans to populate its Facebook group with exclusive content, including regular posts from Sky bloggers at sporting fixtures, film premieres and other celebrity events.

Sky has already experimented with the use of social networks to target young consumers. It recently partnered with MySpace to promote the latest series of imported US drama Lost, as well as its Artsworld digital TV channel.

A number of UK brands have started to advertise on Facebook in recent weeks. Virgin Media, Cosmos and National Express are all running banner ads on the site.

Facebook is in discussions with media agencies about further brand partnerships ahead of the launch of its first UK office this summer (Marketing, 6 June).

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Are campaigns like 'Real Beauty' real empowerment?

Self-esteem isn't as effective as self-efficacy, says Burns Group's director of strategy.

When it comes to empowerment, everyone jumps straight to Dove. Few brands get remotely close to the impact that Dove’s "Real Beauty" campaign has had on culture, which fundamentally changed the way we view beauty and liberated women to feel comfortable in their own skin, stretch marks and all. It was such an important shift in our culture, acting as catalyst for a wave of female empowerment campaigns.

As I reflected on the well-deserved praise for the campaign, it got me wondering – is liberation the same as empowerment? Is it enough to make someone "feel good" about themself if the goal is to motivate them to do something to improve their life? Or does it just make them settle? And does it make sense for all the other "female empowerment" brands to adopt the same strategy as Dove? Or are they just noise?

People often think of self-esteem and self-efficacy as the same sort of thing, but there is a big difference, particularly in terms of how empowered they leave someone feeling. Self-esteem reflects a person’s subjective evaluation of their worth. Self-efficacy refers to the personal belief about one’s ability to perform specific tasks or achieve specific outcomes. Put another way, self-esteem is belief about who you are, which can be somewhat fixed, whereas self-efficacy is a belief about what you’re capable of.

Dove falls into the self-esteem camp, which was an extremely effective strategy, considering the beauty industry’s history of tearing a woman’s confidence down and fueling the inner critic that lives within us. For decades, women were depicted by unrealistic images, which were devastating to the self-esteem of women everywhere. It was liberating and empowering when Dove turned this on its head and made the beauty industry the enemy. However, self-esteem is not always an effective strategy.

Carol Dweck, the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, is famous for her research on mindset. Dweck showed that person-praise, such as "you’re so smart, talented, gifted, brilliant, beautiful," etc., while it helps someone feel good about themselves, leads to what she coined a Fixed Mindset. Someone with a Fixed Mindset is likely to avoid challenges, give up easily, see effort as fruitless or, worse, ignore negative feedback, be threatened by the success of others and as a result fail to reach their potential. This is not empowering.

Conversely, process-praise, which emphasizes the process someone went through to achieve an outcome, cultivates a Growth Mindset and builds self-efficacy, as it enables the person to learn and replicate their behavior. Someone with a Growth Mindset embraces challenges, persists in the face of setbacks, sees effort as a path to mastery, learns from criticism, finds lessons and inspiration from the success of others and as a result can reach ever-higher levels of achievement. This is real empowerment.

Michael Jordan is probably one of the best examples of Growth Mindset individuals on earth. He was cut from his high-school basketball team and saw it as a challenge to work harder and give them no choice but to put him on the team. He was known to be the first to arrive at training and the last to leave. Over the years, Nike’s Air Jordan brand has more closely reflected the Growth Mindset of its namesake.

Initially, the advertising was like that of any other superstar brand. It’s actually quite entertaining to watch the old advertising reel, featuring Jordan achieving the impossible. Flying through the air like some kind of superhuman, dunking on a 20-foot-high ring. He makes it look easy. It’s pure, natural talent. The advertising is praising the person, Michael Jordan. Inspiring, but not that empowering for anyone hoping to follow in his footsteps.

Contrast this a recent campaign. The monologue from Jordan sums it up. "I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot…and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

The later campaign praised the journey that led to his success, celebrating his failures as opportunities to learn and grow. It reinforced that anything was possible through hard work, and the importance of perseverance. It left aspiring basketball players feeling ready for the challenge. The brand went from sponsoring sporting legends to creating sporting legends.

Brands have a unique ability to shape the mindsets of the people they are created for. We need to use that power to make sure we’re doing more than just making people feel good about themselves. Let’s help them believe in themselves. This is real empowerment.

Alison Earl is the Director of Strategy for Burns Group.

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Sir Martin Sorrell said it is "regrettable" that the US Association of National Advertisers has launched a probe into the practices of media agencies without teaming up with the American Association of Advertising Agencies.

The WPP chief executive is "happy to help the ANA in any way" but said "a joint investigation" would have been better. He told Campaign that rivals should follow WPP’s lead and report net sales, rather than just revenues.

Sorrell said: "The best way of the ANA ensuring full transparency is to insist the other agency holding companies do what we do – report a consolidated billings figure, a consolidated revenue figure and a net sales figure. We’re the only people that do it. Certain agency groups have barter, telesales, food broking, data businesses and exhibitions and events businesses that have heavy ‘pass-through’ costs [that are included in revenue but not net sales]."

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  • prep time: 5 min
  • total time: 30 min
  • serves: 4 people
  • calories: 306 1 serving

If you're in a hurry, but want a delicious homemade soup, this is the recipe for you.  It blends beans, salsa, chicken and broth to make a cozy and enjoyable soup.

cost per recipe: $5.99

  • 3 1/2 cups Swanson® Chicken Broth or Swanson® Certified Organic Chicken Broth or Swanson® Natural Goodness® Chicken Broth
  • 1/2 cup uncooked long grain white rice
  • 1 can (16 ounces) Campbell’s® Pork and Beans
  • 1/2 cup Pace® Chunky Salsa
  • 1 cup cubed cooked chicken

  • Step 1

    Heat the broth in a 2-quart saucepan over medium-high heat to a boil. Stir the rice in the saucepan. Reduce the heat to low. Cover and cook for 20 minutes or until rice is done.

  • Step 2

    Stir the beans, salsa and chicken in the saucepan and heat through.

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    Christina M.
    March 28, 2015

    We love this recipe in my family. It's become a staple, something we make several times a month when we're short on time.

  • very good, simple and not a lot of ingredients

    linda s.
    August 2, 2014

    Made this soup and the flavor was very good. Will give this recipe to a friend. I didn't add any new ingredients to it but did put more of all ingredients so as to last for several days. The salsa and beans of course is what really flavors the soup. I stuck to mild salsa but I'm sure the hotter ones will work out just fine. Next time I might add just a few vegies. (Trying to eat healthier) All in all this is a wonderful quick soup that tastes like more time was spent on preparing it. I see myself making this frequently during winter. Need more meals like this.

  • Salsa Chicken Soup

    November 18, 2011

    This is a very simple recipe to follow and the result is delicious. Although some changes that I will for sure use next time are, adding half a can of corn and half a can of black beans. I will still use the pork and beans, but the beans' texture is kind of gone when you add them to the soup. I like a firmer bean. Also, I used about 2 ounces of plain cream cheese, but next time I will use some that Kraft cooking creme in Southwestern flavor. That should add more flavor and body. :)

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    Jan M.
    March 2, 2011

    Loved this soup! I ran out of Chicken Broth so I used Tomato Soup, still came out wonderful! Topped with cheese and some sour cream. Super! :)

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    shanin m.
    November 21, 2009

    I doubled recipe for a crowd. It's a very easy recipe. I would use medium or hot salsa to give it a more Southwestern flavor. What a great and easy meal!

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Millennial Money: Sneaky ways burnout hurts your bottom line

Millennials are a burned-out bunch.

Millennial workers are more likely than older generations to report being burned out at work, according to a 2018 Gallup study. The gig economy, the temptations of social media and the high expectations millennials have of themselves contribute to this trend, behavioural finance experts say.

Add to that record student debt levels, the cost of health care, slow wage growth and little work-life balance, and you have a recipe for emotional exhaustion.

“Millennials have this double whammy of anxiety coupled with a really strong work ethic,” says Kit Yarrow, a consumer psychologist and professor emerita at Golden Gate University. “Before they even get started, millennials approach their tasks in life with a (base) level of anxiety, which depletes their resources for managing stress.”

This is not to say “adulting” is especially difficult for this generation, or to assume that all millennials are struggling. But understanding how burnout harms financial decision-making can help you or a loved one break through it and achieve goals.

Burnout isn’t the same as stress.

The World Health Organization , which added burnout to its handbook of recognized health conditions this year, says symptoms include “feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion; increased mental distance from one’s job, or feelings of negativism or cynicism related to one’s job; and reduced professional efficacy.”

Burnout is linked to your job, but it can also affect your financial decisions outside of work in the following ways:

— YOU PAY MORE FOR CONVENIENCE. You could be spending money regularly on takeout, Uber rides or grocery delivery, for example.

People are often willing to pay more for convenience because they’re exhausted — from working multiple jobs, long hours or being available for work all the time — and because it makes mundane tasks easier, says Theresa Stevens, 26, a financial coach who works with millennials at Declutter Your Money in Providence, Rhode Island.

— YOU SPLURGE AS A REWARD. “Treat yourself” isn’t just a hashtag; it can be a coping mechanism. When it comes to rewarding ourselves, “our mind tricks us into taking us off the hook,” Yarrow says.

“You might think: I already have student loans and credit card debt and my rent is half my income so I might as well go out and eat, because what difference will it really make?” Stevens says.

Social networks and the ease of online shopping make it harder to resist temptation, says Mariel Beasley, co-founder of the Common Cents Lab, a behavioural science research lab at Duke University that focuses on improving financial well-being for low- and middle-income households.

“We see the food people are getting at fancy restaurants, the cute new shoes they bought or the places they’re travelling to,” Beasley says. “We’re seeing their spending; rarely do we see what they’re saving.”

You can’t fix the economy or wish away debt. But by recognizing burnout, you can make things easier on yourself. Here’s how:

— KNOW YOUR “WHY.” Your values motivate you when you’re paying off debt or saving money for a dream vacation. They can also help you prioritize what you’re willing to spend money on and cut back on.

Values aren’t the same as goals. Paying off a credit card is a goal, but achieving financial freedom is a value, Stevens says.

— BUDGET STRATEGICALLY. Budgeting isn’t about cutting out the small things that give you joy, like the occasional Uber or your latte habit.

Taking a big step to save money — think moving into a cheaper living situation, refinancing your student loans or cancelling subscriptions — is more sustainable in the long run than, say, resolving to eat out less, Beasley says.

“Every day when you’re making a decision to spend less, it’s hard to keep going,” she says. “We naturally bounce back to our old habits.”

After you’ve identified your values, a budget is a tool to help you live them. The 50/30/20 budget, which divides spending into needs, wants and savings, is a good place to start.

— CHANNEL MONEY MOTIVATION: When you’re feeling motivated, take a one-time action that will save you effort, Beasley says.

Set up a small transfer — perhaps 5% of your income — to a savings account so the money is out of sight, out of mind. Or cut up a credit card (but don’t close the account) to make it a little harder — but not impossible — to buy things you don’t value.

This column was provided to The Associated Press by the personal finance website NerdWallet. Amrita Jayakumar is a writer at NerdWallet. Email: Twitter: @ajbombay.

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2020 In Review

2020 in Review

Written by Brendan Healy

This time of year is traditionally filled with reflections on the year that was: lists of achievements, lessons, and “best-of lists”... For me, 2020 is different. I don’t have the hindsight to even begin to speculate on what the past twelve months have meant in any substantive way. However, what I do have is a bunch of pictures on my iPhone. I also have some words that they evoke within me. And so, with these photos and these words, I offer you an end-of-year review.

Or, at least, this was 2020 according to my phone.

People in an audience, watching a film

I’m not entirely sure why this photo is on my phone - I suspect I took it because I liked the guy’s t-shirt. I took this photo on March 11th in São Paulo, Brazil. It was my first day in Brazil for MITsp – São Paulo International Theatre Festival. That evening, Trump announced he was closing the border to all non-essential travel between Europe and the US and, suddenly, the whole world was different. It became clear that we were all heading towards a shut down. The next day, I was on a plane back to Toronto on a surreal journey via Atlanta and Newark, replete with hazmat suits, deserted airports, and anxious faces. My arrival home saw me begin a 14-day quarantine during which we shut down our offices at the Berkeley, set up systems for working remotely, cancelled the remainder of the season and tried to wrap our brains around what was next. How quickly we fell into the after. As I look towards 2021, I wonder: am I the same person who took this photo?

Set Maquette

This is the set design maquette for Susanna Fournier’s Always Still The Dawn, designed by Shawn Kerwin. We were halfway through rehearsals for this show when the lockdown happened back in March - one of countless shows that did not get to see the stage this year.

Sarah Dodd is the actor in the photo.

A Quote Written Down

This quote, from Ursula K. Le Guin’s fantastic novel The Farthest Shore, helped me manage the experience of the first lockdown. The quote reads: “Try to choose carefully, Arren, when the great choices must be made. When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and its consequences and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are.”

People watching a performance in a park

This is a picture of Esie Mensah (right) and an audience member dancing together in Mensah’s Can You Trust Me? that was a part of We Were, We Are, We Will Be, co-produced by Canadian Stage and the SummerWorks Festival.

I remember Allen MacInnis, the Artistic Director of Young People’s Theatre, this past spring declaring in the middle of a meeting: “Social distancing must not be normalized!” I could not have agreed more. Necessary, yes. Normal, no. If 2020 was the year that we had to encourage social distancing for our health and safety, let’s make sure that our post-COVID year will be about finding our way back to each other - but with greater respect, compassion, and love for one another.

People dancing in park

Jamii (Swahili for “community”) is an arts organization with the intent of building community in the St. Lawrence Neighbourhood. This is a photo of Malavika Santosh (centre) and Ekaterina (right) performing as part of Kisanii Hub, Jamii’s mobile theatre, presented in partnership with Canadian Stage. In the early evenings of the summer, the Kisanii Hub traveled the residential streets of our neighbourhood in the early evening, bringing art and joy to the people of our local neighbourhood. Jamii is on a mission to bring the people of the neighbourhood closer together. These evening performances were some of my most meaningful experiences of live performance in recent memory.

Music playing on a phone

This song is amongst my most played in 2020. I love it so much. The combination of the funky bassline, the effortless rhythm, the stripped back production, the fragile melody, and Cleo Sol’s vulnerable and clear delivery is absolutely captivating. And then, the lyrics: a powerful statement of grief and resolution with a finger unequivocally pointed at the culprit.

Thief in the night
Tell the truth
White lives
Spreading lies

You should be ashamed
The bloodshed on your hands
Another man

Take off your badge
We all know it was murder
Murder, murder

We are dying, it's the reason we are crying
We are crying

But we will never show fear
Even in my eyes
I will always rise
In wildfires

I ain't never been scared
Even through my tears
I will always care

It is an absolutely stunning song – reminiscent of some of Marvin Gaye’s finest work or even Gnarls Barkley. It served as the soundtrack to a year in which I reckoned with my complicity in the perpetuation of long-standing racial injustice and violence that have plagued this country for centuries.

Woman on an outdoor stage

This is a stunning photo of Jennifer Alicia in Cyclic Dystopia in the High Park Amphitheatre. This performance was a part of We Were, We Are, We Will Be, co-produced by Canadian Stage and the SummerWorks Festival. I invite you to read about the Jingle Dress Dance here if you are unfamiliar with it, as I was. It is yet another example of fundamental knowledge about this land and its people that I was never taught but that is out there for me to learn.

Photo by Andrew Williamson

The poem Walls

Walls, by Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933).

Usually, I devour novels. This year, I have found it difficult to concentrate on any long-form work. Even movies have been a challenge. Poetry has stepped in to fill the void. And what 2020 has shown me is that the more absurd reality can seem, the more apt poetry seems to be at describing it.

Two women talking on Zoom

This is a screencap of Sandra Laronde and Robin Wall Kimmerer in conversation, as part of Red Sky Performance’s Wisdom Keepers Series, in collaboration with Canadian Stage’s Festival of Ideas and Creation. As Robin describes so beautifully in her book Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, the indigenous concept of reciprocity is key to the future. As she writes: “Give thanks for what you have been given. Give a gift, in reciprocity for what you have taken. Sustain the ones who sustain you and the earth will last forever.”

A dancer in an empty room

I love this photo of Vivek Shraya on set for the Canadian Stage produced short film Showing Up, based on her one-person show How to Fail as a Popstar. The film was commissioned as part of Evergreen's 2020 Cultural Performing Arts Series.

2020 saw us all having to try new things: some pleasant, some not so pleasant. 2020 will be the year that I took up paddle boarding, bought some house plants, began a degree in holistic health, and co-directed my first short film – all of which brought me so much joy.

The photo was taken by my husband, Alejandro Santiago.

A virtual reality headset

This is an Oculus Quest on my living room couch after I experienced the performance of Finding Pandora X, my first-ever live performance in virtual reality.

2020 has forever altered my relationship with technology. It is like we went from casually dating to moving in together in the space of a couple of weeks. And to be honest, I do not know yet how I feel about this relationship going to the next level. I miss having my own space. But we are learning what it is for us to live together.

Dancers on a beach at dusk

This is a still from Dancing at Dusk — A moment with Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring, a film produced by Sadler’s Wells, Pina Bausch Foundation and École des Sables, presented by Canadian Stage and Harbourfront Centre. This year, Mother Earth has never seemed so present, so astonishing, so stunningly beautiful, and so powerful to me. And this dance which examines acts of ritual and sacrifice to mark the changing seasons, filmed on a remote beach near Toubab Dialaw, Senegal, captured an aspect of this awakened sense of awe that I have carried with me all year.

A theatre lit up in red

This is a picture of the Berkeley Street Theatre taken on September 22nd. Our beloved home was one of over 650 buildings across Canada that were lit up in red that evening to bring attention to all the empty theatres across the land and around the world.

As I step out of 2020 and into the unknown of 2021, I remain confident that Canadian Stage will get through this. The generosity of our audiences and supporters has often left me teary-eyed and even breathless. The dedication of our staff and board has astonished me. The enduring creativity of our artists has nourished me. The strength and courage of my BIPOC colleagues have inspired and pushed me.

And, for all that, I say thank you to 2020.

Happy holidays. Wishing you all peace, joy, and good health.

Brendan Healy is Artistic Director at Canadian Stage

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The Redskins haven’t had a heck of a lot of luck at home over the course of the last year and change, knowing that they have just one win here since Week 2 of the 2011 campaign. The Redskins have the better of the two records, but they might not have the better of the two teams. QB Robert Griffin III is having the better year of he and QB Cam Newton, but these two teams look really similar otherwise. Carolina’s defense is doing a significantly better job this year of the two as well, knowing that the Redskins are allowing over 28 points per game and have conceded at least 22 in all eight of their games this year. Carolina has come close over the course of the last few weeks, losing these last four games by a combined 12 points, and it just feels like that is going to be coming to a close when push comes to shove in this one. The Panthers should be able to come on the road and get the win, but if they don’t, we still have more than a field goal’s worth of an advantage to our name to get started.

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    Grangetown Lib Dem Councillor, Francesca Montemaggi, met with council officer dealing with alley-gating yesterday and was told that money has been put aside for alley-gating for the following two areas:

    - Mardy Street, Dinas Street, Hafod Street, Pentre Gardens, Taffs Mead Embankment;

    - All the remaining streets off Taff Embankment (Cymmer Street, Llanbradach Street, Clydach Street, Bargoed Street, Aber Street, Ystrad Street, Abercynon Street and Taff Terrace).

    Commenting on the news, Cllr Francesca Montemaggi, said: "I am ecstatic that this is going ahead. I have been very supportive of alley-gating and presented a petition in Council last year for Bargoed Street. This was initially rejected due to low crime incidents. I requested a review of the decision, which is bearing fruit.

    "Money has been put aside for more alleygating to ensure that problems are not simply moved from one area to another. We aim to have all the lanes gated, provided access is guaranteed.

    "I am also thankful to residents who have requested gates and filled petitions. It is their victory as well. The Council will soon consult them and if the majority agrees, we can proceed and install gates. Gates have been successful in combating crime, anti-social behaviour and fly-tipping. However, it is important that residents make sure the lane is kept clean and tidy and nobody dumps refuse there."

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    Work on improving the area around Cornwall Street, Court Road and Clive Street is progressing well, despite a drop in the cash available. However Council officers are working hard to make every pound stretch as far as possible.
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Friday, February 14, 2014

A Moment in Time

FINALLY!  I have been waiting so long to share this project with you!!  This week at LLC our inspiration is "A Moment In Time Theme".  Perfect idea for a calendar!!  I used papers from Maja Design's "Vintage Autumn Basics" collection.  One of my favorites Maja has created ... but I might say that about each new one that comes along.  LOL!!

The brown frame I have from Southern Ridge Trading Co.  A new online chipboard store right here in BC, Canada.  YAY for me!!  LOL!!  I covered it with some Tim Holtz paint and then added Gesso.

Here I've added a bunch of WOC flowers and one of my shabby chic bows and popped a vintage pearl on the center.  Also added some wooden hearts from LLC.  Perfect for the bit of Valentine's day we are celebrating today!

OH MY GOODNESS!!!  Isn't this lace just GORGEOUS?!!!  I wanted to break down the calendar into 2 sections.  One for the image and one for the calendar.  What is more perfect than this pretty lace?!!  NOTHING.  hee hee ... Well in my mind anyway.  LOL!  I used a Memory Box butterfly die and popped a little WOC flower in the center.

This image and sentiment are new releases available for pre-order at LDRS.  She's from the Saturated Canary line called "Yvonne" and the sentiment is from the "Vintage Everyday" sentiment collection.

I also loved using the clocks that I cut out from the Maja papers and added Gesso...TO EVERYTHING...AGAIN!  hee hee  I added my own calendar (3 months) and used a Spellbinders die underneath both WOC flower bouquets.

Thank you so much for stopping by!!!

Big hugs for everybody today and have a great weekend!!

Scraptastische hobby said...

Beautiful Eulanda I don't know where I first went to look! Fantastic as you have attached all together, so many beautiful details! A true work of art. ... beautiful lace and flowers! What a lot of fun on your blog, I wish you a wonderful weekend!
Many, many greetings from Gerie

Hellma said...

such a stunning project.

*Vicki* said...

Absolutely stunning in every way Eulanda!! Love your calendar project with all of the Vintage and fun! :) HUGS

Christina C. said...

What a spectacular calendar you created, my friend!!!! Love the cute image and all those amazing details!
So much gorgeousness on this creation and the addition of all those clocks is it!

Anonymous said...

What a gorgeous creation, I love all the pretty die cuts
Hugs Julie P

Christy Designs said...

Gorgeous calender Eulanda. So many detail to look at and love the shabby chic feel.

Simone said...

Oh dude this is senSAtional! I just love how you used the clocks, how fitting for a calendar! OMG the lace is GORgeous! Awww & I just noticed the little blue sweet! What a masterpiece buddie!
SSOA like do I even need to write that anymore?!

Unknown said...

Brilliant piece; the cut out clocks are so fitting and beautifully layered. Same goes for the sentiment! The middle part with the lace & clocks is my favourite, but also the bottom part is beautifully put together.

Hugz, Sandy
Owner & Operator @ Live & Love Crafts

Kelly said...

Love your calendar and the papers go so perfectly with your theme. I saw this on Angie Hunts you tube interview at the tv station, saw it right away, your work is so gorgeous my eyes go right for it!
Hugs Kelly

Anonymous said...

um words can not express how I feel about this calendar! WOW OMG HOLY MOLY!! Beautiful!! Those are just a few words that express how I feel!! :)


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