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MENTORSHIP AND MENTAL HEALTH WELL-BEING

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  Why Every one Needs a Mentor In life? Growing up my mother used to work in a post primary school she could give talks to students she was teaching. I would watch her prepare and sometimes heard her rehearse. She knew a lot, but her delivery was dry. Her topics were very technical, and she covered them expertly, but she was also a nervous speaker. I absorbed that anxiety from her at an early age and grew along with it. Somewhere along the path to adulthood after my bachelors studies, I thought about being a Disability activist but I was worried about not being a good public speaker. And I held firmly to it, even in the face of evidence to the contrary. Well, I decided that 2 decades was long enough to hold firm. So I got a mentor. I had some things I wanted to say, and I wanted to say them without the distraction of an old story in my head that isn’t serving me anymore. My mentor analyzed my voice for pitch and range. Then He recorded a video of me making impromp...