Use courage to co-create empathy in relationships,
to be that person who will Inspire!
Grateful to The Right Door for the invite to talk about Coraggio! The Courage to Inspire at their annual retreat. Yet I was the one inspired by their commitment to the important people they serve!
The Right Door Retreat Coraggio Courage to Inspire 11-12-18
Stayin’ warm as the first snow flies with this fall harvest of
Scotch Bonnet peppers.
Petite yet potent, they have the habernero beat! Their high level of capsaicin helps to reduce inflammation and pain.
Feeling good from taste buds to toes!
“Courage is not the absence of fears, but the capacity to act despite our fears.”
By Sen. John McCain from Why Courage Matters and quoted in Chapter 12 of the first Coraggio book.
Yet we are reminded this week of the Sen. McCain quote that underscores the With Courage I Can philosophy of looking outside of one’s self and one’s woe.
“Nothing in life is more liberating than to fight for a cause larger than yourself .”
From Faith of My Fathers 
I always look forward to the gift of a rose on Nonna’s birthday.
Sure enough, right on time did this beauty appear.
The gift of a rose on Nonna’s birthday.
Drum roll please…the 2018 Coraggio Spirit Award is bestowed to Brandie DeHaan, for her courage to advocate for herself and for others.
She displayed the courage to step up and to continue asking questions until correctly diagnosed and again used courage to step up until she found a treatment that worked for her. When no longer able to serve others as an EMS worker, she turned her passion for helping others into serving her family of eight and other MG patients. Grazie for your inspiration Brandie!
Coraggio 2018 Spirit Award
Chase after your dreams, no matter your age!
I am thrilled to have met Italian Director Katia Bernardi and Co-producer Davide Valentini, who brought this message alive in their film “Funne.”
Italian Funne film Katia Bernardi e Co-ProducerDavide Valentini
Their heart-warming and humorous story follows a group of older women
from a remote, picturesque mountain village,
in pursuit of their dream to travel to the sea.
Bravo Katia and Davide!
Grazie organizer of the Italian Film Fest Carmen De Lorenzo!
Liz & Lisa #GoRedMI
Do you know that sudden jaw pain is a sign of heart attack in women?
— with Lisa Gigliotti and Elizabeth Wudyka Smalley at Soup Spoon Cafe.
#GoRedMI Feb 3, 2018
Perfect meal for Wear Red Day–heart smart vegan chickpea veggie stew
served over sweet potato mash.
Gratitude=happy!
Neuroscientists prove feeling grateful activates the brain stem region that produces dopamine, the neurotransmitter that leads to feelings of being happy.
I give gratitude for the God-given inspiration for the Coraggio book series
and for the men and women I have met along the Coraggio presentation paths
who have taught me enormously about courage, faith, and hope.
Coraggio Presentation Photos
I am humbled and strengthened by their valor.
I was blessed by Fruzi and Greti who greeted us when we arrived in Hungary this September, spoiled us with a home-cooked traditional meal of soup and stuffed Hungarian peppers, and who kept my mother Julia and grandparents Zoltan and Anna’s memories alive for me and passed to Eric. I experienced profound gratitude that I could once more gaze at the Danube River that flows through Budapest, Hungary with Fruzsi and Greti.
Bridge over the Danube River in Budapest with Fruzsi and Greta
Lisa Gigliotti is an attorney who has lived for more than twenty-five years with severe rheumatoid arthritis and serious myasthenia gravis. Through those years’ thirteen major surgeries and use of a wheelchair Lisa has maintained a fulfilling and positive life.
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