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How Eliza Dushku is taking back the power after her #MeToo story

THIS IS AN UNUSUAL INTERVIEW. I AM NOT meeting Eliza Dushku in a Beverly Hills restaurant or a SoHo hotel bar, where celebrity profiles are usually set. Instead, I find her in a coffee shop just off Harvard Square in Cambridge, Mass. Inside, students in hoodies hunch over their laptops. Dushku has become one of these sweatshirt-clad students: she’s studying holistic psychology, a therapeutic modality that integrates mind, body and spirit, at Lesley University. After nearly 30 years working in Hollywood, Dushku says she’s been getting a lot of calls from friends, a tinge of concern in their voices. “So, you’re in Boston?”

Yes, she is. Because Dushku has been thinking a lot lately about the narrative of her life, and she’s decided that learning more about how to heal others is her next step. That

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