title: Embrace The Pain
author: Jana Nicole Campbell
description: Jana Nicole Campbell is a journalism student at Georgia State University. She is an aspiring speaker and media personality and also the founder of The Fearless Project, which, with her husband, Robert Campbell, gives back to homeless shelters. Jana makes her home outside of Atlanta with her husband and two beautiful cats.
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  “You want me to do _what?_ ” Jana Lee Tompkins Stivers bolted upright in her
  spa bed and stared at her twin. She quickly pulled up the sheet to cover her
  naked breasts. Jillian’s insane request just proved that her sister had truly
  cracked up.
  
  “Jana Lee, I know I don’t deserve to ask anything of you, but I’m completely
  burned out. I can’t bear facing people in my office again. I—I stood in the
  lunchroom screaming like a crazy woman at the vending machine because I got
  Mounds instead of an Almond Joy. I kept hitting the damn thing with my fists.
  I said terrible things to that machine. They had to detach me from it.”
  Jillian’s voice cracked.
  
  “You should have called me sooner.” Jana Lee thumped back down on the spa bed.
  Leave it to
  
  her sister to take whatever peace their life had and twist it until it
  couldn't ever be put back into its former shape.
  
  "I'm just not ready to go back. A week here hasn't even made a dent in my
  stress levels. They won't give me another 