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Read to me! Audio reading of this post here How do you feel about this past year, 2020 ? With the pandemic I imagine many people are looking forward with great anticipation for this year to end. Will Green Day’s “Good Riddance” become the song of the season at New Year’s Eve? But hey, I’m getting ahead of myself. Truthfully this reflection is about looking back to a lovely lesson I learned from a lovely woman in 2019. And no better time than the present to share it with you. In the spring of 2019 I was trying to get back into my career, working in healthcare. Up until this point I was building my work resilience working part time as an improv theatre instructor. In doing so I saw a great opportunity to merge improv with healthcare — combining science & art. I developed my own workshop to help healthcare providers better their counselling skills using the tools of improv. I even submitted this workshop to my profession’s national conference being held in my city that spring. My