THE COST OF THIS SEQUENCE

Let’s quantify what it’s stolen from you:

• Creative legacies buried in folders labeled “unfinished”


• Intimate connections lost to self-protection and overfunctioning


• Opportunities missed because you downplayed your readiness


• Loyalty to exhaustion over liberation


• Delayed self-recognition — you keep outsourcing your worth to o

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I still feel the familiar flutter of anxiety every time I'm about to publish something. I still wonder if I'm qualified, if I'm smart enough, if anyone will care. But I'm learning to see those feelings not as stop signs but as information—signals that I'm about to do something vulnerable, something that matters to me, something that might matter to... See more