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" "In the same way, our suffering, our disengagement, our relationship challenges, and our other difficulties are almost never solved by thinking in the same old, automatic way. Being emotionally agile involves being sensitive to context and responding to the world as it is right now.
Susan A. David (born 13 September 1970) is a South African psychologist, speaker and author.
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