Why You Aren’t a Prisoner of Your Past We often think of a prison as a place with cold stone walls, iron bars, and a heavy steel door that locks from the outside. But for those struggling with low self-esteem and crumbling confidence, the most restrictive prison isn’t made of bricks and mortar. It’s […]
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Your Life is Waiting for You to Claim It For over a decade, I lived my life behind a veil. To the outside world, I was functioning, but internally, I was navigating a constant, suffocating fog of “not good enough.” I knew the layout of that cage perfectly: the bars were made of “what if
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In a world that often profits from our insecurities, the concept of “self-love” is frequently dismissed as a fluffy marketing term or, worse, a mask for vanity. We are taught from a young age that humility is a virtue and that focusing on oneself is a fast track to egoism. But here is the grounded
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We’ve all been there: standing in the “Personal Development” aisle of a bookshop, looking for a title that promises to finally unlock the secret to unshakeable confidence. We buy the book, highlight the mantras, and for three days, we feel a surge of borrowed motivation. But then, a minor social rejection occurs or a project
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Why Other People’s Opinions Are Not Your Business This has happened to all of us at some point: you walk into a room and suddenly you feel as though every single person is staring at you, zooming in on your insecurities. For hours afterwards you replay this image in your head, constantly analysing everything you
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We’ve all been there and had that all too familiar feeling of envy and sadness at seeing couples walking hand in hand through a park or staring lovingly into each other’s eyes over a cosy meal in a restaurant. Scenes like these just reinforce your own feelings of loneliness. You want what they have, that
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