A healer? Really?

How do you see yourself? As a sister? A brother? A student? An athlete?

Here’s another question—one that’s pretty much changed my life: What if you saw yourself as a healer first? How would that affect your soccer-playing, your test-taking, even your Snapchatting?

Here’s how this mental shift affected me. One afternoon, as I was helping a fellow student in my college’s writing center, I realized that my primary role was not as a friend or tutor, but as a healer. 

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