This is Optimal Living Daily episode 784,

and excerpt from the book The Kindest Cure by Tara Kuzeno,

and I'm Justin Malik, your personal narrator,

reading blogs to you mostly, but sometimes books, like today.

That just came out today, actually.

I'm going to read an entire chapter for you,

and I'll share more about the author at the end,

so let's get right to it, as we optimize your life.

And excerpt from the book The Kindest Cure by Tara Kuzeno.

Chapter 2 Your Kindness Instinct

The world can at times feel like a very unkind place.

The year my daughter, Josie, was 12 years old,

three horrendous events occurred.

The Batman shooting in a movie theater where 12 people were killed in 70 wounded.

The massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School that left 26 children, teachers, and staff dead,

and the Boston Marathon bombing that wounded hundreds of people and killed three.

It was a year of extreme tragedy.

Despite my efforts to minimize overexposure,

Josie felt a real and strong fear that these things could happen to her.

Lockdown drills were being done regularly at school,

and she began imagining herself and her loved ones torn to bits.

Josie's heartbreaking response was to wonder aloud,

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