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Samantha (Sam) Bushika

If you've ever felt like you were too far gone, too complicated, or too much for the conventional path to help — you're in the right place.

Progressing Not Perfecting is an alternative holistic wellness & personal transformation platform for people navigating life's hardest seasons. I rebuilt my life from the ground up after years stuck in a cycle of heroin addiction and incarceration, using holistic and nontraditional approaches that support the mind, body, and spirit. Approaches and practices so effective and transformational that I now teach them here for free. I did it alone, and I have been called to ensure you do not have to.

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