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Jacqueline Jannotta

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    Becoming Better—Literally—Using the Power of Our Minds

    by Jacqueline Jannotta November 14, 2020
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    Every time the nurses or doctors came into my daughter’s hospital room, they shuffled through her chart, puzzled.

    “Did they forget to mark her oxycodone, her painkillers?” they would ask.

    “She hasn’t taken any. She’s doing fine with the ibuprofen,” I would confirm.

    “Are you sure? That doesn’t seem right.”

    Yet it was perfect. In the days following major bone surgery, my then 15-year-old daughter, Chiara — who gave me permission to share her story — only took one oxycodone pill. Knowing that 6-10% of patients post-surgery end up on long-term use of opioid painkillers, we wanted to stay as far away as possible from an addiction epidemic that is all too real in America. And with the help of an empowering self-managed program, we succeeded.  So if you or someone you know ever faces a planned surgery (especially during the time of Covid), tuck away this post, because what you’ll learn could be of measurable and immeasurable help.

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    Becoming People Who Protect Democracy

    by Jacqueline Jannotta October 27, 2020
    October 27, 2020

    My last post (Designing a Better Map to Guide Us) spoke of a hopeful future and a unified US. But I have to confess that the current election has tested…

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    Designing a Better Map to Guide Us

    by Jacqueline Jannotta October 15, 2020
    October 15, 2020

    Every now and then my petulant 14-year-old daughter will extract herself from the latest viral TikTok video and declare her thoughts about a real-world issue. This week she surprised me…

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    Becoming People Who Breathe Cleaner Air

    by Jacqueline Jannotta September 21, 2020
    September 21, 2020

    Never again will I take fresh, breathable air for granted. The relentless fires along America’s West Coast serve as another reminder of how interwoven we are on this planet. When…

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    Reframing the Apocalypse

    by Jacqueline Jannotta September 12, 2020
    September 12, 2020

    Earlier this week, an intense windstorm knocked out our power for several hours. Today is the third day of an orange sky casting an eerie pall over Portland, as wildfire…

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    Becoming People Who Build a Better Community

    by Jacqueline Jannotta August 14, 2020
    August 14, 2020

    The Black Lives Matter protests in Portland are nearing 80 nights of activism. And as described in last week’s post, Hogwarts Meets Portland, the protests have been relatively peaceful since…

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    Hogwarts Meets Portland

    by Jacqueline Jannotta August 6, 2020
    August 6, 2020

    Funny how fiction and reality often merge. Each reflects the other, no matter how much time passes between when a story was written and when a person interprets it. Such…

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    Becoming People Who Promote Peace

    by Jacqueline Jannotta July 20, 2020
    July 20, 2020

    Last week’s post referred to a discussion from my college days about the plausibility of world peace. While utopian ideals might seem laughable given the current state of the world,…

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    Embrace the Unknown

    by Jacqueline Jannotta July 10, 2020
    July 10, 2020

    “Do you think it’s possible that humans will ever evolve beyond war?” I asked, casually sprawled on the dorm lobby sofa. Mike’s response was a swift, flat-out “No.” “Not even…

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    Becoming People Who Stand for Equality and Racial Justice

    by Jacqueline Jannotta June 22, 2020
    June 22, 2020

    As evidenced in The Illusion of Progress, one thing that gets me through these ongoing moments of collective stress is to zoom out and view them as history in action.…

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A fun, expansive way to becoming better is to step away from the familiar and immerse in a foreign land for a while. Now is the perfect time to plan for a post-pandemic adventure. 20% of all book sales go toward the non-profits featured on this site. ⇨ In my award-winning book learn more about our year in Italy, and about how you can create your own adventure abroad.⇦

Fun Updates

  • A couple of my posts recently got picked up in some awesome Medium publications:⇨Age of Awareness⇦ and ⇨The Bigger Picture⇦
  • I was a guest on the Italian Genealogy Podcast where I had fun revisiting our year abroad and discussing the joy of doing family history.

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I'm Jacqueline Jannotta and I share stories and ideas to actively build a better Us.

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