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VALUE PRACTICING SELF-COMPASSION: To become someone you genuinely love

One of the many things I understood months later in my journey that would have been better to know earlier on is self-compassion. In the beginning, I was my own biggest critic believing that growth required constant dictatorial self-correction and strict rigid metrics. I measured how quickly I was healing and how much I struggled […]

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CHALLENGING YOUR SELF-IMAGE: Third step to finding yourself in your 20s and beyond

You are the last person standing in your own way. Yes, I said it. Another thing I ran into on my self-awareness journey was my own self-image attached to my ego vigorously preserving my fragile sense of self. Whenever an opportunity of growth invited me, my ego rushed to the defense. I began to see

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 FINDING YOUR SURVIVAL PERSONA: Second step to finding yourself in your 20s and beyond

I never realized how often I was actually surviving instead of being real until I underwent the first step in my self-awareness journey. I could not live from my truth simply because underneath my conditioning lived my survival personas. It was hard to override because I kept clinging to a part of my survival instincts

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UNDERSTANDING YOUR CONDITIONED SELF: First step to finding yourself in your 20s and beyond

For many years, I searched for my truth and authenticity without fully understanding why I somehow never really got anywhere and felt more disconnected from myself. It took time to realize that I was busy addressing symptoms rather than the source. I was trying to reshape my life on the surface while leaving the deeper

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