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Many people think they have to choose between being strong or kind, confident or humble. But real emotional strength comes from balance. It’s about knowing when to stand your ground and when to let go, when to speak up and when to listen. The more aware you become of your behavior and your reactions, the more control you have over how you show up in different situations.

Which one do you find hardest to balance: being kind without being passive, or being strong without being harsh?

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It led to her starting the MS Society, 80 years ago this month. “She went where she needed to go, talked to who she needed to talk to and didn’t take no for an answer and did that because she believed we needed to find a cure for her brother,” says Dr. Tim Coetzee, president of the MS Society.

Lawry's MS Society is now the world's largest private funder of MS research, playing a part in every one of more than 20 current treatments for the disease. It also provides free supports and info to 1 million in the US living with MS and their families. "Think of the scores of people that were impacted by the work she did. It’s remarkable," Coetzee says.

Sylvia Lawry died in 2001 at age 85. “I really believed this would be a short-term undertaking,” Lawry said in her biography, 'Courage: The Story of the Mighty Effort to End the Devastating Effects of Multiple Sclerosis,' by Richard Trubo. “Of course, I was wrong.”

Source and article: www.nationalmssociety.org/news-and-magazine/momentum-magazin...

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