Realizing that chasing perfection was not chasing happiness.
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Updated 1 year ago,April 5, 2024
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Outlining the anatomy of every disaster youre in.
Natalie Allen
Everything from your debt to the root of the warped self-image youve been carrying around since childhood.
Getting clear on exactly whats wrong so you’ve got the option to finally make it right.
Softening your anger until its sadness, and then crying out everything youve been trying to avoid.
No longer spending more timecreating an image of how your life looksmore than you do nurturing how it feels.
Realizing that chasing perfection was not chasing happiness.
It was chasing acceptance.
It was chasing fear.
Beginning the unglamorous job of rebuilding yourself.
Letting some relationships come to their natural end.
Letting people from the past just… go.
Unfollowing any account that brings you anything other than inspiration or laughter each day.
Using social media as a force to motivate and encourage you, not defeat and dissuade you.
Letting people think what they want of you.
No longer wasting your energy trying to fight an opinion that you could never control anyway.
Not letting what other people project on youbecomeyou.
Making space for complexity.
Knowing that you dont know what you dont know.
Being willing to learn, and to change.
Approaching the unknown with curiosity, not defense.
Living within coexisting truths.
No longer betraying who you are to fit in with other people.
No longer negotiating your worth against someone elses.
No longer believing self-worth is something that is reduced or appreciated in the presence of another person.
Being grateful for what you have while you have it.
Recognizing that the willingness to bevulnerable is the secret to healing.
Recognizing that the willingness to be vulnerable requires the willingness to let others see you as you actually are.
Choosing noble goals not because you think you should, but because you want to.
Learning when anxiety is just nerves.
Or natural, human heartache.
Learning when anxiety is more than just nerves.
When its a problem and needs help.
Learning how to ask for that help.
Dreaming bigger than other people ever dared to let you.
Dreaming for more than you ever thought you could.
