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To me my mental and emo onal health is cul vated by mee ng goals, being true to myself, and nding
acceptance for myself. I see my therapist every few weeks and that helps a lot. I constantly examine my
feelings and make steps towards improvement, even if they’re really slow. It is me nding a way to push
through when things get hard. I have been betrayed in the past and I trust far too easily, so I have been
nding ways to protect myself.
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 My physical health is deeply ed to my sense of dysphoria, I really struggle with this, I try my best to
stay healthy but to be honest I don’t always do that great of a job due to the aliena on I feel from my
body.

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My close blood family are incredibly important to me, I would set my life aside for them. My found
family are also incredibly important to me, we meet up almost every weekend and hang out together,
they’re my rock. I can know that no ma er what they’ll be with me.
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 A large part of my spiritual health is oddly wrapped up in communist theory. I truly believe that we can
make the world a be er place and strive towards that, my religious views are in ux. I go between
atheist, agnos c, and pagan as I try to nd where I sit. But for the most part, the lens through which I
focus my soul has been science based, people based, theory.
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Descended from tainui, as much as I complain about it’s swampyness Waikato is my place. I’ve been
here my whole life, and although I’ve travelled my world isn’t the road.