Growing up I always felt like I needed to be perfect. Whether it was at school, playing sports or in everyday conversation, I’d consider myself a failure if I didn’t have the highest grades, wasn’t the captain of the team, or didn’t sense someone was truly impressed by me after a conversation. This behavior became
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To validate someone is to enter their world, and acknowledge their thoughts, feelings and behaviours, bearing in mind their context and life experiences. To validate someone is to reflect back their experience with empathy, understanding, and compassion. It is to show them that their feelings, thoughts and reactions make sense in their present and past
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May you always remember the fleeting and sacred nature of this life. May you always revel in this moment, remembering to take pause, and observe all that is right here, right now, as to fully envelop yourself in its magic. May you give yourself permission to embrace yourself fully and completely. Without doubt. Without apology.
For the last 10 years I have sat alongside many beautiful, resilient people who have allowed me the privilege of holding with them the deepest, and most intimate details of their lives. To be given this privilege has transformed me. It has allowed me to understand the capacity of the human spirit, to witness true
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For years, I clung tightly to a fairly narrow idea of what constitutes success. I subscribed to the notion that success is to be found externally, through the accumulation of achievements and accolades, and the receipt of recognition and approval. I held the idea that I had to prove myself, prove myself worthy, lovable, and
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We are often told, either explicitly or implicitly that we must be “better than” and that life is a fight. A fight to be perfect. A fight to outshine. To outdo. To get ahead. To get to the top. After all, we are often implicitly told that it is only through this fight to outshine
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Unconditional love is always rooted in non-attachment. Loving another unconditionally means loving them in the complete totality of their being… regardless of how they “show up.” Loving another, really loving another, is always rooted in self-love. If we yearn for love because we are looking for someone to “fill us up” to reassure us that
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