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Edie Eger

Edie Eger's Story
Turning Broken Bones Into Dancing

Edie's story began in Kassa, Hungry where she grew up with her parents and older sisters, Magda and Klara. In May of 1944 at the age of 16 her life changed forever. Edie was sent by the Germans to Auschwitz concentration camp along with her parents and sister Magda. Read more...

Elisa Christensen's Story
Creating a Sparkling New Life of Love

During the most challenging and scary time in my life, when I was spinning out of control in every aspect: physically, mentally, psychologically and spiritually, I was blessed with a spiritual guide. Read more...

Morgan Hunt's Story
Changing the Game

A friend once told me of a game called Sores on You, which she played as a child. The game consisted of each child counting the number of cuts, scratches, bruises, and similar boo-boo's, then comparing tallies. Whoever had been hurt the most, won. Six years ago, I felt like I'd stumbled into a karmic adult version of Sores on You. Read more...

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Mark McLane

Mark McLane's Story
Piecing His Head and Life Back Together

Mark was involved in a very serious biking accident on Sunday January 20, 2005. He sustained severe head injuries, neck injuries and back injuries from this accident. Surgery repaired his fractured skull that the doctor described as "putting a jigsaw puzzle together". Amazingly no fragments of skull penetrated the mass that protects his brain from the skull. Injuries from the head trauma include loss of eyesight on his right eye. (the fractured skull is on his left side) Loss of hearing on his left ear.

Mark is now on the long road to recovery. The accident has given him a new lease on life and helped him see reality in a whole new way.

• Read more about his journey in his own words in his first year of recovery.
• Read more about his journey in 2008 in a letter he wrote to Oprah Winfrey.

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Mark McLane

Julia McLane's Story
Small Girl with a Big Heart

When she celebrated the New Year, ten year old Julia McLane did not yet realize that 2005 would be such a challenging year. She also didn't know that events were about to unfold that would give her an opportunity, at such a young age, to demonstrate the depth of her personal heroism, unselfish giving, and love for her family.
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Other Inspiring Stories

• Warren MacDonald -Discovery Channel “I Shouldn’t Be Alive-Trapped Under a Boulder”
  • Part 1 (1:12 min.)
  • Part 2 (10:00 min)
  • Part 3 (10:00 min)
  • Part 4 (10:00 min.)
  • Part 5 (3:15 min.)
• Kindness of Strangers - Paperback book by by Don George (Editor), Dalai Lama (Foreword)

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