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How a community can help you heal
Kurt Ewald Lindley |
TEDxDoncaster
• October 2019
Kurt Ewald Lindley How a community can help you heal
About the Speaker: South African born, Yorkshire bred lover of learning. Father 1st, everything else second. Purposeful dreamer, thinker, poet, procrastinator, curious human, and blogger of life stories.
Why you should Listen: After his wife was diagnosed with cancer 2009 Kurt found himself both lost and inspired.
Lost in the chaos of life, living, treatments, medication and hospital visits, but profoundly inspired by her ability to wake each morning and be a wife, a mother and a friend. Kurt recognized that he needed to be more and so began a new chapter for him and his family.
His story of resilience amid deep loss illustrates how the kindness of a community can help you heal. How reaching out and valuing the kindness of strangers is the beginning. How these strangers become more than friends and enable us to live with a renewed zest for life, despite the huge void left by the death of our loved one that can never be filled.
This is a story of being a survivor and following loss, of finding a new normal in one’s community. It’s a story of someone who choose to reach out and discovered a community willing to reach back in wonderful and unexpected ways