how i started liking myself again (after years of trying)
so i stayed. i sat with the discomfort. i let myself feel the things i’d been numbing with busyness and discipline. and slowly, in ways i can’t map on a timeline, i began to see myself differently. i started noticing how harsh my inner voice had become — the one that measured everything in terms of enoughness. and instead of obeying it, i began to... See more
how i started liking myself again (after years of trying)
Before I worked with the therapist, I never really heard from anyone that I am valuable just the way I am, just because I exist. I probably heard something like that in spiritual circles and thought: ‘yeah, yeah, whatever’. It never felt true, especially in the world of capitalism, academia, relentless competition in which we have to prove our
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