Inspire Action, Motivate Change

Inspire others and empower healing through positive vibes and and mindful practices. Health and wellness for mind and body. Pure inspiration, pure movement.

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Thank you, Winnie the Pooh, for your beautiful words of wisdom.

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#instaself #instaselfie #bestselfies #bestselfie #bestself #selfstagram #selfshot #self #myselfie #myself #selfiez #selfielife #selfieday #selfielove #selfiemode #selfiegram #selfieaddict #selfieeee #selfiegamestrong #selfieking #selfiesi #selfiegame #selfiecentral #selfieee #selfiestick #selfieoftheday #selfiefordays #tagsapp #selfiee #selfienation #selfietime #selfies #selfie #love #party #happy #cake #happybirthday #friends #family #instagood #birthdaycake #photooftheday #fun #gift #bday #birthdaygirl #birthdayparty #cute #beautiful #smile #foodporn #celebrate #picoftheday #instalike #girl #celebration #champagne (at Walnut Creek Downtown)

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@mezzaninesf #girl #dancing #photooftheday #friendship #fashion #cute #dress #beauty #pretty #models #love #style #eyes #girly #stylish #beautiful #hair #girls #purse #styles #shoes #nails #outfit #heels #instafashion #skirt #jewlery #tagblender #catsareawesome (at MEZZANINE)

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Any ideas or tips to boost mental health?

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Showing support in the #marchforscience #puglife #iginstagram #igdogs #instadogs #pugsofinstagram #igdogstagram #pugsforscience https://www.buzzfeed.com/juliareinstein/bawoooooooo?utm_term=.xwBYjp2Ew#.xjREnDOKd (at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

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Cancer & Career Workshops

Balancing Work & Cancer Webinar: Career Change Career Change Has your cancer experience caused you to dream about a completely new career? Learn about the process for changing careers, including assessing yourself, identifying obstacles and opportunities, creating an action plan, and more. This is the fourth of eight sessions in our Balancing Work & Cancer Webinar series. Click here to learn more about the other sessions and register! Speaker Julie Jansen, Speaker, Trainer and Author Date & Time Wednesday, June 7, 2017 — 1:00 PM ET/ 10:00 AM PT Registration register Register now! All sessions are FREE and open to cancer patients, survivors, healthcare professionals and caregivers. *Accreditation: Each individual requesting credit MUST register individually; group registrations cannot be used for credit. Cosmetic Executive Women (CEW) Foundation (Cancer and Careers) SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0072. This program is approved by the National Association of Social Workers (Approval #8865534115-7362) for 1 continuing contact hour per session. Provider approved by the State of California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP 16673, for 1 continuing education credit per session. This activity has been approved by the Oncology Nursing Society (Approver #0222) for 1.25 contact hours per session. ONS is accredited as an approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center COA. CEW Foundation (aka Cancer and Careers) maintains responsibility for the program. Healthcare professionals of all disciplines should contact their regulatory board(s) to determine course approval for their specific licence(s) and/or certification. For more information on accreditation, please visit http://www.cancerandcareers.org or email [email protected].

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The Scientists Who Saved My Life @pennmedadar-blog @americancancersociety-blog-blog @leukemia-lymphoma-society-blog

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Girls with Friends - http://weheartit.com/nicole_gularte/collections/126114240

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Words for Wellness - this song has kept me inspired and motivated through the last seven years of my cancer journey. @postitforward

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Need for speed with a bad little kitty! 🙀#needforspeed #mezzanine #wokebae #girlsnight #iginstamood #iginstagram #girlswhoride #drivingpretty #mercedesbenzgirl (at San Francisco, California)

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Hey, Tumblr.

Today is May 1. The first day of Mental Health Month. This entire month we want to nudge all of you to celebrate triumphs, acknowledge struggles, and just come together. Let other people know they’re not alone. Feel less alone yourself. It’s what Post it Forward is all about.

One of the incredible ways you—all of you—have helped shape Tumblr is with your ability to be open and honest.  It was you that turned this platform into a community, one based on genuine expression, creativity, and acceptance.

Neat. How can I participate?

Glad you asked! Each week, for all four weeks, we’ll be giving you ideas for ways to Post it Forward.

Week 1—Post it for you: How you practice self-care and personal well-being.

Week 2—Post it for each other: Ways you can be there for each other.

Week 3—Post it for reflection: Sharing stories of personal growth and development.

Week 4—Post it for the future: Committing to continuous reflection and improvement.

This week is all about posting for you. Acts of self-care. Here are some places to start:

Post an emoji spell for self-care and positivity. 🌈 🔮 💕 🌱

Share a photo or GIF of something that calms you down. Don’t have one? Here’s one.

What’s the one thing that always cheers you up? Post a photo of it, take a GIF, or illustrate it. Toss a sticker on it, if you’d like.

Never forget that you are valid! Post a selfie with “valid” sticker (see below).

Make a list of things you like about yourself.

Make a checklist of 5 acts of self-care you promise to do for yourself this week.

Make an audio post with a song that helps you zone out and re-energize.

Don’t forget to tag all your posts with #postitforward this month! It makes it easier for everyone to find each other’s contributions.

What else?

We’ve asked our pal Tumblrbot (@tumblrbot) to help out with any extra encouragement you might need. Try sending them messages like “tell me about Mental Health Month” or “what’s this week’s prompt?” Tumblrbot will let you know what’s up, because Tumblrbot is a friend to all of us.

We got Answer Times, all of them taking place right here on Post it Forward unless indicated otherwise:

5/4—Utkarsh Ambudkar, NAMI (@namiorg) ambassador, Pitch Perfect actor, and member of hip-hop improv group, Freestyle Love Supreme.

5/8—AJ Mendez Brooks, NAMI (@namiorg) ambassador, former pro wrestler, and author of Crazy Is My Superpower, a memoir about her experiences with bipolar disorder.

5/9—Brittany Snow and Courtney Knowles, co-founders of Love is Louder, from their official blog (@loveislouderofficial).

5/10—Kelly Williams Brown, New York Times best-selling author, from her official blog (@adulting).

5/15—Cynthia Germanotta, Lady Gaga’s mother and co-founder of the Born This Way Foundation.

5/16—Shannon Beveridge (@now-this-is-living), 25-year-old YouTube star. She’ll be partnering with It Gets Better (@itgetsbetterproject).

5/23—The creators of #TheBlackout movement, from their official blog (@theblackoutofficial).

5/25—Anna Akana, YouTuber, writer, director, and activist, from her official blog (@annaakana).

5/26—Mental health advocates Patrick and Amy Kennedy.

We even have some limited edition stickers ready for you in the Tumblr app right now:

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Giving a speech at GE Ventures

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Scientific knowledge can benefit humanity - Bruce Levine

FIRST - a MASSIVE THANKS to everyone who came out on 4/22 for the March for Science in Philadelphia! We were humbled by the turnout and everyone’s dedication to the March’s mission of advancing support for scientists and science, increasing accessibility, inclusiveness, and equality in science, and showing how important science is to policy. Our work is not done yet - we plan to keep this blog going so please keep sending your #ScientistsofPhilly profiles!

By Frank Moriarty, Outreach Volunteer

Bruce Levine is a killer. And that’s a good thing.

Levine, with a Ph.D. in Immunology and Infectious Diseases from The Johns Hopkins University, is one of the nation’s leading scientific warriors, striving to develop synthetic immune cells that can strike back in battles against advanced cancers. Based at University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, Levine’s areas of research focus on Immunology and Cell and Gene Therapy.

Recently, Levine co-wrote an article for Scientific American with his fellow Perelman associates Avery D. Posey and Carl H. June. Appearing in the March 2017 issue, the article focuses on the development of CAR T cells. T cells are a key component of the immune system, but the Perelman researchers began with an appreciation of the fact that T cells required fortification in order to effectively bolster immune systems fighting off cancers.

“Back in the mid 1990s,” the article, titled “Cancer Killers,” explains, “while trying to discover new treatments for HIV, two of us (June and Levine) created an improved technique to turbocharge T cells drawn from patients, making the cells more abundant, powerful and longer-acting than previous methods could achieve. Then, about a decade ago, a new way of genetically altering T cells became available that would allow them to efficiently home in on and attack certain kinds of cancer—such as leukemia and lymphoma—that originate in various types of white blood cells.

“In the past few years these synthetic immune cells, known as chimeric antigen receptor T - or CAR-T - cells, have been tested in dozens of studies collectively involving close to 1,000 patients with advanced cases of leukemia or lymphoma. Depending on the disease, half or more of those patients are now living longer than expected, and hundreds appear to be cancer free.

“A consensus is building among cancer researchers that treatment with CAR T cells - either alone or in combination with other therapies - will eventually provide durable cures for certain blood cancers. The next hurdles will include confirming if this type of therapy can be effective against other kinds of tumors and better controlling the side effects, some of which can be fatal. But the success so far, which involved tackling a series of difficult challenges over the course of about 20 years, is heartening.”

The progress that Levine and others have made so far shows that, while breakthroughs may not always come quickly, persistence and the diligent application of scientific knowledge can lead to benefits for all of humanity.

That understanding is a core principle of March for Science - Philadelphia, an opportunity to help reinforce an appreciation of science in all of our day-to-day lives.

Profile adapted from these articles in Scientific American: A New Model for Defeating Cancer: CAR T Cells and Blocking HIV’s Attack. 

Want to be profiled? Email outreach volunteer Cara at [email protected] for instructions.

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Day five!