. Oxytocin, already dubbed the ‘cuddle hormone,’ may deserve a new moniker as the ‘kindness molecule.’ Scientists have known for more than 50 years that a hormone called oxytocin plays a critical role in stimulating uterine contractions during labor and delivery, and that afterward, it helps a nursing mother to release milk for her infant….
When in my teens and my parents weren’t around, my old friends use to watch out for me and just be there. No judgement but support and guidance. Now I do the same for my daughter and her older friends whose lives have been difficult. Asking nothing, but giving loving support. So rewarding for both….
There are going to be times your gift of giving is not well received. In some cases I have been asked by the recipient to please give them more, and early on iI did because I felt I had so much. One holiday season I contacted a women’s shelter to adopt a single mom with…
This short video is quiet, profound, powerful, simple — and so supremely human, showing the inner lives of people around us as they go about their daily tasks. Most of it is set in a hospital, where there is so much worry, sadness, some joy, bad news, good news, no news, anxiety, fear – as…
So yesterday I was visiting my mother in law at the oncology level of the hospital. I actually remembered to take the chocolate bars with Ripple Kindness cards stuck to them with me. The first went to the lovely volunteer lady who sits at a little desk near the lifts to give people directions to…
Yesterday morning I was headed to the gym after a sleepless night from stress and anxiety. I was tired and a little testy when I received a text. All it said was, “hey there…. have a great day Deanna!!” The text was from an old highschool friend that I reconnected with on Facebook. I haven’t…
We went to the local park for a family fun day today and you have to pay for parking. The ticket machine wasn’t working. Not knowing what to do, we just decided to take our chances, when someone who was leaving asked us if we wanted the parking voucher they had, as it still had…
Why Bake a Difference? Sweet Ambrosia Bakeshoppe is a family owned, small local business. Ashlee and I began Kim and Ashlee’s Cakes & Cookies as a hobby in 2003. We loved any and everything cake and cookies. We talked, breathed, and dreamt cake. In 2009, we were finally able to turn our dream into a…
I have no car so was walking to pick up my medicine while it was snowing heavily this past winter. I saw a girl crying out and she told me she had fallen and was in severe pain. I asked if she wanted me to call an ambulance with my cell phone but she said…
Our lovely neighbor Beverly, lost her cat Rocky a couple of months ago. She was devastated, especially because he was attacked by a wild animal in the night. We all loved him and he was so tolerant of our enthusiastic 4 year old son! I printed and framed one of the many photos I had…
I finally got my morning tea idea organised at work. I brought in a heap of chocolate biscuits, drew smiley faces on yellow balloons along with your info and some cards. Staff loved it. I tried to do this anonymously but people had me all figured out. The biscuits and kindness cards had gone by…
OMG!! I am so excited right now that I am going to share a good story that has happend to me. Even though I don’t post every time I do a kind act, I have been performing acts of kindness reguraly since joining Ripple and leaving the kindness cards with my good deeds. I don’t…