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Dear Tender Heart, It’s Time To Step Into Your Power.

Our power is that deep self-acceptance of living for ourselves. Quit living for someone else, in search of their praise. You’re doing it right -- you’re going to be just fine.

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What’s the Matter with Childhood? The Alchemy of Growing Up.

Part of the problem is that many of us associate adulthood with the misery and bitterness we’ve seen in those who did the right thing, by going to a job that made them sick and cynical, so they could have enough money to raise a family they couldn’t really spend time with, so they could put ...

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Orlando: This Is how It Lands in Me.

When I was a teenager, just starting to question, there was a horrific crime committed in my hometown where two brothers broke into the house of a gay couple and murdered them while they slept in their bed. I believed then that it would never be safe for me to be out. As a teenager, I expected ...

Dear White People.

Saying sorry is more likely to reinvest white power with the sort of moral nobility a philanthropist acquires for spreading his wealth. A deeper sort of accountability is needed -- one that brings us to the edges of ourselves.

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How I Became A 19th Century British Lady Tyler Durden.

When I added the lovely extra letters to words like 'neighbour' and 'favourite', or went 'to hospital' or back 'to University', it did not feel fraudulent, but like a gleeful, mischievous sort of conceit.

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Being Reborn As The Butterfly That I Am.

I realize now, looking back at my journey of transformation, which felt more as a transmutation -- a death/rebirth process -- what I went through was an energetic, alchemical process that changed my whole consciousness and, consequently, my self-identity, the process akin to what a caterpillar ...

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Somewhere Between ‘Failed Bogan’ And ‘Enlightened Yogi’.

So did you fail at being something too? Well, good! Now you've got space to wade through the paint and come back to the canvas that was your true non-identity in the first place. And then either paint a new picture or refine the present one you're working on... which might take you the rest of ...

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Desperately Seeking A Sense Of Purpose.

I have always wanted to be heard. Not to achieve some modicum of glory or fame (not that I haven’t fantasized about the limelight, of course I have), but to feel like I’ve given the world something of value through my work. And I mean work that is deeply personal, not just a function of survival.

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