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I didn't wanna keep going and piling it on, but I was really convinced and, maybe delusively, so I was convinced. I would say, you might be right. Call you back in a year. We'll know better by then.
You have to show up each day. You can't just kind of, you really can't be a Sunday painter and get where you wanna go if you're really trying to go somewhere with it. It's a practice just like learning a piano, yoga, et cetera.
When I was working in the traditional systems, the Western systems, I should say, it was hard. It didn't value, 'I want to know your story.' That was looked at more often as boundaries, having boundaries. And I often looked at that as, oh no, that's where we get to the healing.
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MD · PhD · MPH · MBA
Dr. Lisa Belisle is a board-certified family physician, writer, and the host of Radio Maine. She works at the intersection of medicine and the human spirit, in the clinic, on the air, and on the page.
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From Off the Wall · Portland Art Gallery Artist
I consider the opportunity I have to paint to be a gift.
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Previously: Love Maine Radio
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