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Challenges in Service Delivery

Challenges in Service Delivery

From: Hiding in Plain Sight

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“Change a Life”

“Change a Life”

From: Change a Life, Change Your Own

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Change a Life, Change Your Own

Change a Life, Change Your Own

Child Sponsorship, the Discourse of Development, and the Production of Ethical Subjects

Peter Ove argues in Change a Life, Change Your Own, child sponsorship is successful not because it addresses the needs of poor children, but because it helps position what it means to live … 188 View
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Changing Ourselves

Changing Ourselves

From: Are We Done Fighting?

This chapter reminds us of the importance of readiness for changes within ourselves such as healing and forgiveness, and that these processes cannot be rushed. It further examines evidence for … 16 $1.60 Add
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Engage, Connect, Protect

Changing the Culture

From: Engage, Connect, Protect

This chapter grounds the previous chapters in the realities of dealing with the cultural differences that arise when attempting to integrate diverse youth into the mainstream environmental sector. 14 $1.40 Add
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I Shook Up the World

From: Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea

In the first chapter of the Cocaine segment of the memoir, Wood talks about his experience relapsing onto cocaine at a Montreal strip club. Wood talks about his past dreams, his first gig at Yuk … 15 $1.50 Add
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Chapter 10

Nail Biting

From: Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea

Though not as dangerous as other addictions, Wood notes that nail biting was his longest-standing vice. An impulse to hurt himself came with it. Being in the hospital to support Nora during … 8 $0.80 Add
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Chapter 11

Cigarettes

From: Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea

Wood notes that some of his "lowest moments of addiction" were related to cigarettes, certain he wouldn’t be able to escape them. He describes the withdrawal as more constant than … 17 $1.70 Add
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Chapter 12

Red Meat

From: Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea

Eating red meat wasn’t out of his control. However, Wood didn’t want to be a part of the climate problems connected to red meat. Nora is the next guest on his podcast. She remarks … 4 $0.40 Add
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Chapter 13

Dairy

From: Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea

Wood cleverly begins the chapter by using an "unhealthy alcohol use" questionnaire and makes dairy the subject instead. The results are telling. Wood notes that overeating was similar … 10 $1.00 Add
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Chapter 14

Porn

From: Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea

Wood describes his inroduction to porn and his strange relationship with it. Quitting porn wasn’t the biggest struggle of the month, however. Wood’s health was still suffering, and … 9 $0.90 Add
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Chapter 15

Credit Cards

From: Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea

Wood explains how credit cards were more a vessel to acquiring other vices than being a vice. Setting boundaries on how credit cards would be used was the fight at hand. 4 $0.40 Add
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Chapter 16

Gossip

From: Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea

Communcation and sharing stories is natural for humans, Wood notes, before explaining how gossip can have similarities to the highs and lows of other addictions. Though tempted early on, Wood … 8 $0.80 Add
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Chapter 17

Sugar

From: Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea

Wood notes how difficult it is to quit sugar, especially with its ubiquity in everyday life and the general lack of support when accomplishing one’s goal. Changing one’s habits was … 6 $0.60 Add
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Chapter 18

Social Media

From: Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea

Wood compares two equations: the number of hours on the Apollo mission over eleven years and the number of combined hours humanity spent on social media in 2019. Quitting social media isn’t … 14 $1.40 Add