Honey. Hi,

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my name is Laura and I am a senior at Southern

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New Hampshire University online. Um,

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I'll be getting my degree in psychology with a concentration in addictions in

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December.

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And I'm here because I have been writing since I was 13.

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And I have an amazing love and passion for it

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as

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something to use to get to know yourself better or to develop your emotional

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intelligence. And I wanted to just share that with everyone. Um,

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I wanted to help everyone understand that they're already great

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writers and that everything they have to say is so important because it's

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something that they're creating and that came from inside of them and that they

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should not feel ashamed or embarrassed or think that it's not good

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enough if they express it. And so that's kind of what I'm here for.

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Um,

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and also to offer proof reading so that once you've written your perfect essay

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the way you wouldn't have it,

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I can help you by making sure that it's mechanically correct, the spelling,

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the grammar, everything is, is correct for you, turn it in. Um,

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so I do offer that for you. Um,

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I also am going to put on my

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profile that I can offer, um, sort of peer support.

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I'm not certified in peer support, but I am,

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I have trained on the apps Seven Cups and hear me for the past five

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or six years as an active listener, um,

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which is where members log on and talk,

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who want to talk to somebody who has lived through some of the mental health

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issues or just general issues in life that they've gone through.

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And they just want someone to listen, um,

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without judging them or trying to diagnose them like a therapist.

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And just as a way, sort of like,

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I want my tutoring to be as sort of like a collaboration where we share

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ideas with each other about what we've tried, what worked for us,

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what didn't work for us. Um, so that will be another type of thing,

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like the tutoring will be.

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So I hope that I can be helpful to at least someone.

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