By Steve Almond and Cheryl Strayed — 2018
You did not survive the traumas of your childhood because you were lucky. You survived — and are thriving — because of your courage and resilience.
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We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.
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When I said I was struggling, people would tell me I was beautiful. The world had drained out all the metrics of measuring beautiful and replaced it with scales and calorie counts.