Sally Kohn: Part of making sure that you're doing the best that you can do for yourself in the moment is really like taking a good heart and oftentimes courageous look at yourself. She says she was off balance when it came to prioritizing her family, spiritual practice and work. "I would describe my priorities as being, you know, family first always," writes Kohn.
Following 9/11, Simran Jeet Singh's Sikh family in Texas was subjected to extreme racist abuse. And yet, Simran's father chose to look on the bright side and offer thanks instead for the acts of kindness friends and neighbors showed them. How was such optimism possible?
Simran - author of The Light We Give: How Sikh Wisdom Can Transform Your Life - explains how practicing positive habits and living by our values as often as we can will really help when a crisis arises.
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