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Brad's avatar

Thanks for another great post. For me, seeing you be bare and honest with yourself helps me to do the same. Being honest with self, one begins to remove the layers from of lies that religion and society or family repeatedly told us. I shape twisted and became small for them and it didn’t work. So eff them. I’m going to be me…whatever that looks like. But I know it begins with being honest with self and not really caring WTH they think. Thanks for leading the way.

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Alexander Lovell, PhD's avatar

We often think of sacrifice as giving something up for a cause or another person. But what you’re talking about here is a sacrifice of the self for the self, for a truer version of the self. It’s almost like an internal revolution, a dismantling of what no longer serves us to make way for something more genuine. That act of choosing to shed the old to embrace the new, even when it's painful, feels like the most powerful form of self-love. It’s a bold claiming of one's own potential, no matter how messy the process.

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