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Emotional Struggles & Mental Wellbeing

Oct. 2020 Part II: Failures Indicate Growth

October 14, 2020

Oct. 2020: Failure

Starting September 2020, I will be writing a series about a different monthly theme. The goal is to walk you through a weekly process to help alleviate concerns surrounding the topic of the month. October’s theme is failure, and this blog post explains how your failures indicate growth.

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Emotional Struggles & Mental Wellbeing, Personal & Professional Development

Are you Scared to Talk to People?

July 1, 2020

Post #97 The Cost of Remaining Comfortable

On one hand, you envy groups of people who hang out and form connections with one another. On the other hand, your attempts to make friends or be social quickly fade as the feeling of nausea settles in. Did you realize you are not the only student who is scared to talk to people?

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