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How I Ended Toxic Dating by Seeing People as They Are
Allowing people to show me who they are instead of who I hope they’ll be I hadn’t been on a dating app for a whole year. The last time I was, I had a pretty grotesque experience. I was chatting with someone who at first seemed interested, but when he suggested moving to a phone call,…
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What If the In-Between Holds the Key to Your Next Big Shift?
How pausing can reveal opportunities for fulfillment and personal transformation Life is an endless series of opportunities for growth. The essence is in the space in between — in between point A and point B — B and C. The space in between is the living. It’s what we’re here for. If point A was your birth and point B…
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How I Stopped Letting PMS Fuel My Self-Doubt
Recognizing and Transforming Negative Thinking Patterns Shouldn’t I be more? Shouldn’t I have become more? Should I be doing more? That nagging guilt that somehow, I’m falling short. These thoughts creep in, like clockwork, every time I’m about to get my period. Along with them comes a wave of paranoia — something’s breaking, something’s wrong, something bad is…
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I Built a Life of Freedom — So Why Does It Feel Like a Dead End?
Rethinking success, fulfillment, and what comes next I’ve been dragging lately, and it doesn’t feel great. I’m not exactly sure where my path leads — or if I’m even on a path. The truth is, the work I do is a dead end, and I know it. But it’s comfortable, and it provides the freedom I crave. I…
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The Moment I Knew I’d Changed as a Woman
Breaking the Cycle of Chasing Unavailable Men and Choosing Myself Instead I keep attracting the same circumstances and people into my life. It’s frustrating. Haven’t I been here before? Haven’t I learned this lesson? But what if these repetitions aren’t setbacks? What if they’re opportunities? A chance to wake up, to step outside the automatic programming…
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