Self Tour Guide

Dawn Stergin
6 min readJun 5, 2019

You Cannot Be Anyone Else. Don’t Sacrifice Yourself Trying To Make Others Happy.

Photo by Laurencia Soesanto on Unsplash

“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.”
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

My father did not graduate from high school. He got a job working in a printing factory in Philadelphia when he was 20 and stayed there his whole life. He once told me…

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Dawn Stergin

Former addictions counselor, empty-nester, activist, animal lover, writer and lover of what it means to be human.