Showing posts with label community. Show all posts
Showing posts with label community. Show all posts

Saturday, October 25, 2025

This happiness hack can guide you toward a life of purpose - The Washington Post

"So much of the pop psychology stuff is 'focus on yourself, focus on your own personal growth, focus on your needs, focus on your self-care, focus on you, you, you,'" says psychologist Kendall Cotton Bronk of Claremont Graduate University. Instead, she argued, "the real path to happiness is focusing on others, on how you can contribute to others and their well-being. … What we need to be focusing on is contributing in meaningful ways, and often that will lead to the happiness that you're seeking."…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/10/24/happiness-purpose-community-contribution/


Monday, May 26, 2025

Brief: The Cult of Crossfit (Conspirituality podcast)

When cultural and psychological anthropologist Katie Rose Hejtmanek set out to study Crossfit, she knew she had to throw herself into it fully. For seven years, she traveled to “boxes” around the world while committing herself to her local Brooklyn box. What she uncovered was a rabid fan base that deeply values community and a business model that offers a refreshing response to unfettered capitalism—as well as the misogyny, racism, and militarized Christian themes that inform this beloved and despised fitness regimen. She joins Derek to discuss her new book, The Cult of CrossFit: Christianity and the American Exercise Phenomenon.
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Friday, February 17, 2023

Garland, Gupta attend violence interrupters conference in St. Louis - The Washington Post

In 2022, Congress approved the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which included new gun restrictions and $250 million over five years to be distributed by the Justice Department to community intervention programs. Congress also allocated $50 million to the Justice Department to support such programs in each of the last two budget cycles, when Democrats controlled the House. It is unclear if that funding will continue now that Republicans have a narrow majority...









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