How I Went From the Pain of People-Pleasing to the Freedom of Being Me
âHow hurtful it can be to deny oneâs own true self and live a life of lies just to appease others.â ~June Ahern
Growing up I felt lost, separate, and different from everyone else in my family. After all, everyone else was a fit; they pursued the same hobbies, had the same aspirations, and even thought in the same way (everything was very black and white with hardly any grey areas). I was interested, it seemed, in everything they were not interested in.
I had a different way of looking at the world. Any task I was asked to …
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