Sometimes I don’t know who I am anymore feels like a strange thing to admit. After all, I know my name. I know where I have been. I know the things that have happened to me. I know the roles I play in other people’s lives. I know what I usually like, what I normally […]
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Sometimes I look at my life and think: nothing is obviously wrong. There is no dramatic crisis. There may even be things I once wanted, things I know I should be grateful for. And yet a question can quietly appear beneath all of that: why does my life feel wrong when, from the outside, it
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Have you ever finally had time to rest, only to spend the whole time thinking about what you should be doing instead? Nothing is actually demanding your attention. Nobody is telling you to work. There is no emergency. And yet somehow, sitting still feels uncomfortable. You pick up your phone. You remember something you could
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Have you ever stopped in the middle of a thought and wondered where it came from? Not whether it was true. Not whether it was reasonable. But simply: Who taught me to think this? Perhaps you have always believed that being productive makes you valuable. That a good relationship should look a particular way. That
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Most of us are taught how to live long before we are old enough to ask whether the life we are being taught actually makes sense. We learn what success looks like. We learn what a respectable life looks like. We learn when we should work, when we should marry, what kind of relationship we
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Why am I always tired? It is a frustrating question when, from the outside, there seems to be no obvious reason for your exhaustion. Maybe you haven’t been running around all day. You haven’t done a strenuous workout. Perhaps you’ve barely left the house. You may even have spent hours sitting down, scrolling, watching television
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Most of us have beliefs we rarely think of as beliefs. They feel more solid than that. They feel like facts. We believe certain things about God, relationships, morality, success, ourselves, other people and the nature of reality. Some of those ideas were taught to us explicitly. Others were absorbed so gradually that we may
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Am I crazy? It is a question that can sound almost flippant when spoken aloud. We say it when our version of events seems different from somebody else’s. We say it when we notice something other people don’t seem to notice. We say it when an idea enters our mind that doesn’t fit comfortably inside
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There is a difference between wanting to grow and believing you are a problem that needs to be fixed. For a long time, many of us are taught to approach ourselves through correction. We notice something uncomfortable and immediately ask how to change it. We feel anxious and want to eliminate the anxiety. We feel
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There are moments when you begin to question yourself, not because something dramatic has happened, but because you can no longer ignore the quiet sense that something inside you has changed. You are still getting things done. Still answering messages. Still showing up. Still laughing at the right moments. Still functioning. And yet somewhere beneath
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