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I live for course week . I feel like 

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it's my sole purpose for being here at 

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Maxwell . Our course is one week long 

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and we get students from all over the 

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world throughout our Air Force and 

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Space Force . During course week , we 

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teach a lesson on mindfulness where we 

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take our students outside for an 

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interactive lesson on grounding 

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techniques , breathing techniques , and 

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how to practice mindfulness even while 

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walking . It's really fun to see the 

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light bulb moments that go off and to 

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see how they're going to take this 

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information back to their units . 

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Personally , this has saved my life . 

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In 2020 , my 11 year old son Levi was 

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diagnosed with an incurable brain 

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cancer before he was even diagnosed , 

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we practiced gratitude daily . He wrote 

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down something that he was grateful for 

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that day . I still had those sticky 

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notes in a journal . And it's one of my 

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most prized possessions . The last 6 

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weeks of his life were hard . But for 

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14 months , he had a beautiful quality 

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of life and he just had this sense of 

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hope when he was told there was no cure 

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for what he had , he immediately 

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responded , not yet . losing Levi . 

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Left an enormous hole in our hearts . 

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But I still needed to be here for my 

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daughters , my husband . 

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And myself Every time I get to 

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teach and give someone else these skill 

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sets so that they can go through their 

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life and their adversities and their 

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challenges . It's helping me stay 

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tethered to this place .