Lizbeth Meredith's Blog

Chances are, if you live in the United States, chances are you’ll interact with the Social Security Office. It’s can be simple if you’re applying for retirement benefits. But should you be the one of millions who are petitioning for assistance regarding a physical or mental disability, good luck. Your work is cut out for you. […]

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After high school and college, our lives can become smaller and smaller, with the chance to meet people who challenge our thoughts and beliefs dwindling as our age increases. U.K. based athlete Muyiwa  Adebiyi  began the Day In Day Out podcast to continue to expand his knowlege base and his circle of support and influence.   […]

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As a Harvard graduate, Bracha could have worked in any number of high-paying fields. But she longed to make a difference in the lives of young people and became a prolific children’s author. You will learn: Creating books for children that would have helped Bracha when she was young, dealing with eating disorders, has created […]

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At 18, Cindy Villanueva was clearly on the fast path to success. Attending UCLA after an illustrious high school journey that included near- perfect grades, Cindy instead got pregnant and became a teen mom and college dropout.  But even after three more children and a volatile divorce, Cindy didn’t give up. You will learn:  Deferred […]

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At 18, Cindy Villaneuva was clearly on the fast path to success. Attending UCLA after an illustrious high school journey that included near- perfect grades, Cindy instead got pregnant and became a teen mom and college dropout.  But even after three more children and a volatile divorce, Cindy didn’t give up. You will learn:  Deferred […]

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Sometimes it feels as though life has it in for us. Since publishing my book and more recently, when that book became a movie, I’ve had the pleasure of connecting with so many people around the world, many experiencing crises similar to those I wrote about like abuse and parental kidnappings. But though I don’t work […]

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Christina Foxwell’s early life in South Africa was with loving and strict parents. Her father was a Penecostal minister. It was during the age of apartheid, and Christina, a fair-skinned person of color, found herself longing to fit in and to be loved. Christina said she looked to men to abdicate her authority to and […]

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The bumpy relationship between bestselling author Laura Davis and her mom was well-documented long before her recent memoir The Burning Light Between Two Stars: A Mother-Daughter Story was published and resulted in a long period of estrangment. Yet where some of us may have written the relationship off forever, Laura and her mother worked hard to lay a […]

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Parenting books and experts have much to say on parenting kids during the early years. Then the information seems to stop. Denise Drinkwalter is a former educator who’s helped scores of parents who are wrestling with issues of communications, expectations, and disappointments when it comes to their adult kids. You will learn: * The dynamic doesn’t […]

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You might think that being a twin means you’ll experience the world around you similarly. Not so, says identical twins and authors Joan and Jane, former therapists turned psychiatric entertainers. Perhaps it was their forced separation by medical staff when they emerged as preemies and sequestered from one another and all physical touch for a […]

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