Category Archives: Classics

Your Particular Kind of Light

“Can you deny the need for a light like yours?” Christine Kane – from the song The Good You DoI bet sometimes you get frustrated when you work hard and try to do the right thing everyday. The environment in …
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Chasing Coolness: Why the World Needs You

by Sue Ludwig “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Howard Thurman I was understandably nervous the first time …
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Neonatal Therapists: Team or Territory?

I’m sitting at my 10 year old daughter’s basketball practice and one thing is crystal clear. There is no one-most-important person on this team. If they don’t communicate and have a sense of each others’ abilities, they aren’t effective. If …
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How to Release Your Inner Piglet

“Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?” “Supposing it didn’t,” said Pooh after careful thought. Piglet was comforted by this. Last summer my kids and I joined friends at a large nearby amusement park. It was …
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Working with Neonatal Nurses – A Bird’s Eye View

By Sue Ludwig Originally written for Donna Ranker on the occasion of her first retirement from the NICU Neonatal nurses are a difficult group to describe. I have a bird’s eye view of them, working with them yet not being …
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What Do You Bring to the Incubator? Bringing Your Best Self into the World of a Premature Baby

We each have a vibe. An energy. Our own individual mojo. And it’s easy to pick up everyone else’s vibe. We can walk away from someone feeling energized, centered, happy, or … Not so much. We all know people who, …
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