May 2019: Holding Hands

One stick is easy to break, but twenty sticks, bound together, are strong. Rwandan Proverb I often travel in the Developing World as part of my work with the Foxglove Project. I have the opportunity to work with women making their way out of poverty in ways that provide for […]

Join hands and gather your tribe

31 May, 2019 in May 2019: Holding Hands / Radio Scripts tagged community / foxgloveproject / radioscript by Kelley

I can feel him shrinking away from me. At the school gate in the morning, checking who is close by. Maybe it’s the memories of the bully who shamed him last year, leaving remnants of not enoughness. Also I think it maybe because he now reaches for the computer game […]

Ten Seconds to Spare

31 May, 2019 in May 2019: Holding Hands / Radio Scripts tagged parenting / radioscript by Amanda

“Sometimes reaching out and taking someone’s hand is the beginning of a journey. At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.” Vera Nazarian Have you found courage and strength in a simple act of letting someone hold your hand and walking you through a season of life? It […]

Hold My Hand

27 May, 2019 in May 2019: Holding Hands tagged #tribe / community / womenempoweringwomen by Shiko Kariuki

I don’t remember being too keen on ‘holding hands’ as a child or even a girl. I liked being independent. Self-sufficient. Perfectly capable. But I think it’s because I never quite understood the beauty of relying on another person. The wonder of knowing that if one of you stumbled, the other […]

Holding hands…a reminder you are not alone

24 May, 2019 in May 2019: Holding Hands / Radio Scripts tagged community / parenting / radioscript by Kelley

Nothing, I learned, brings you into the present quite like holding hands. The past seemed irrelevant; the future, unnecessary. Catherine Lowell It was 12:05am and we had just dropped her friend off at home. My daughter, with her Frozen PJs on and Troll’s blanket wrapped around her, wore a look […]

Her First Sleepover

20 May, 2019 in May 2019: Holding Hands tagged #emotions / parenting by Mish Pope

This month marks my 8th wedding anniversary and I know this is the stage that familiarity can easily settle in. So with intention and purpose I have been taking the time to look familiarity in the face and to begin to look again seeking out what I fell in love […]

familiarity

17 May, 2019 in May 2019: Holding Hands / Radio Scripts tagged communication / marriage / radioscript by Amanda