Tag: self-esteem
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More Than Enough

A strange thing happens when we scroll through social media long enough. We can go from being perfectly content with our lives to wondering whether we have somehow failed. Someone else has the marriage we wanted. Someone else has the career we wanted. Someone else has the house, the vacation, the body, the confidence, the…
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Vulnerability Is Hard.

Learning to tell the truth, when you have learned how to pretend, is really, really hard. It is hard to overcome old patterns of coping–denial, distraction, avoidance, worry. It is hard to admit that you are not okay. It is hard–and very humbling. Some days I find myself falling back into old habits instead of…