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Jun 2022
40m 59s

The One Where Art Teaches Me How to Over...

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In this episode I recount the school year - the highs, the lows, and the only way I knew how to battle back from covid isolation.  The students teach me as much as I do them, at how we both have to embrace being horrible at something, absolutely suck at it, fear the weight of failure only to come out the other side triumphant.  Throughout the whole thing I have the grade 7 and 8 health class keeping me one my toes and laughing until my sides hurt.

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