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It was an utterly exhausting way to exist—a 24-hour shift of pretending to be someone I wasn’t. I moved through the world with my guard up and my heart locked away, terrified that if I let anyone get ...

I dream about your little face all the time. Would you have my curly brown hair? Your father’s chubby cheeks? What would your smile look like? The dream is the same, every time. I walk into the ...

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Most of us didn’t grow up learning how to navigate conflict in healthy, compassionate ways. If anything, many of us were taught to fear it. Stay quiet. Don’t rock the boat. Keep the peace. And for a ...

Visualization sounds simple enough. Picture the life you want. Hold the vision clearly. Feel it as if it’s already yours. And eventually, it should start to take shape. But if it worked that way, more ...

I didn’t lose my intuition. I was taught to override it. Not by a single person, and not all at once, but through repeated, normalized language delivered by those closest to me. I took me a long time ...

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There was once a man who was visited by three goddesses. They were attempting to settle a dispute between them, a trifling matter to determine which of them held claim to the golden apple that had ...

“But… how can you say she was being objectified if she agreed to do the photo shoot?” my friend asked. I’d just expressed my distaste with a nude yoga photo ...

She was done not fully being herself. She realized she was the only self she could be—and not being unapologetically true to herself was a disservice to her soul and the world. She was done listening ...