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Transcript: Reverend Dr. Michael James Oleksa, Ph.D.

Taking responsibility for one’s health

[Oleska:]
So I think this is our biggest hurdle now, to encourage people to be actively involved and take responsibility for the well-being of their own families and their own children. They’ve been taught for a hundred years, “You’re incompetent and you can’t,” and as long as people believe that they can’t take responsibility for their own health—spiritual, emotional, even physical health in their own communities.