“When we learn to look to the outside for self-value, self-worth and self-love, it’s a losing game. That’s because it’s impossible to manage outside forces very well. We simply cannot manage or control others’ opinions of us and this unending need for acknowledgement – impossible to truly fulfill – often leads to frustration and burnout. The goal was clear – to transform Iris’ need for external affirmation to a reliance on self-love and self-acknowledgement. But how to change years of conditioning? Because”