By Nancy Doyle — 2021
Let’s move beyond superpowers but not forget to keep promoting our strengths.
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Stop Chasing Self-Esteem & Just Be Self-Compassionate | Kristin Neff, pioneering researcher into self-compassion.
The quest for perfection is exhausting and unrelenting. There is a constant barrage of social expectations that teach us that being imperfect is synonymous with being inadequate. Everywhere we turn, there are messages that tell us who, what and how we’re supposed to be.
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For many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn’t take much—just hearing of someone else’s accomplishments, being criticized, getting into an argument, making a mistake at work—to make us feel that we are not okay.
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