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The Mafioso at the Threshold
Vanessa Couto Vanessa Couto

The Mafioso at the Threshold

Our internal resistance studied at the university of You—weaponizing your own values to keep you from changes that part of you knows are inevitable. The exhausting truth: it takes more energy to refuse transformation than to surrender to it.

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