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Our stories of worthiness—of being enough-begin in our first families. The narrative certainly doesn't end there, but what we learn about ourselves and how we learn to engage with the world as children set a course that either will require us to spend a significant part of our lives fighting to reclaim our self-worth or will give us hope, courage, and resilience for our journey.

When we stop caring what people think, we lose our capacity for connection. But when we are defined by what people think, we lose the courage to be vulnerable. The solution is getting totally clear on the people whose opinions actually matter.

explore whether the expectations are rooted, as they often are, in nostalgia or the perilous practice of comparing a current struggle with an edited version of "the way things used to be."

We can't be brave in the big world without at least one small safe space to work through our fears and falls.

Despair is a spiritual condition. It's the belief that tomorrow will be just like today.