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On Being Useful

published by LPA On February 25, 2023

in Academic, Advocacy, Clinical, Family, Public News, Social

Being useful should not be confused with being busy — it’s important that our actions have meaning to us and to others. What makes for meaningful, or useful, actions vary.

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