Intentions, Seeking Validation, and a Need to Be "Unspectacularly Ordinary"
Your intentions reveal your people-pleasing style and clues to how to take better care of yourself.
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I turn forty-seven in a few days, and it’s safe to say that my forties, thanks to perimenopause, tinnitus, work habits, my father’s death, and breaking up with my mother has been the decade of coming face to face with my limits and how my self-worth and identity were predicated on effort. It’s not feeling good enough and trying to prove, on some level, …