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“Here’s what I know is a true fact from my own life and what students have helped me learn from teaching more classes than I can count: if things aren’t getting better, I haven’t changed my story. Not just the story I tell while hiking with my girlfriends, but the story I unconsciously whisper to my very cells that in turn reverberates throughout my being. The story that binds itself with my emotions, my perceptions of the past, and my visions of the future. If my story doesn’t change, nothing else can.”

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