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Nov 8Liked by Pooja Lakshmin MD

I did all of these instinctively yesterday: I set up a meeting with my director to discuss how we were going to keep our immigrant and refugee students safe and engaged, I worked out some relevant lessons to help students cope, I reached out to a dear friend and organizing mentor to let her know how much she inspires me, and I walked 3+ miles in the golden autumn sunlight.

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Nov 8Liked by Pooja Lakshmin MD

Your work and words continue to inspire me in more ways than you know. Thank you.

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You are so kind Kriti

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Nov 7Liked by Pooja Lakshmin MD

Problem solver all the way! I am doing ok because we have been here before, and there's no solution but to keep working at it and not give up. My SO is a little more down than me, so I'll think about how these can help him.

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Yes. Just one foot in front of the other. Thanks for reading and engaging Laura

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Nov 7Liked by Pooja Lakshmin MD

This is such a helpful framework and menu. Going to incorporate this into work with patients.

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So glad you find it useful too Lizzie. I like it alot !

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Nov 7Liked by Pooja Lakshmin MD

Yes, hope is a practice and love is a verb. Great post, Pooja.

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Thank you Susan ♥️

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Thank you for your insightful and action-oriented suggestions. For me, #3 resonates the most because in difficult situations, clarifying my values and acting accordingly has always been grounding (even if it doesn't "feel" grounding immediately.)

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This is so good. Thank you. I did all of these over the past week and a half. Now I understand how what I ended up doing was helpful, and this Hope Modules Framework will be a great tool for working with a client this week who often finds himself feeling hopeless.

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