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Rubi McGrory
Jan 16, 2022
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I have a little secret.

I don’t know if you’ve picked up on it at all. 

This month, the theme we’re exploring is self-love. 

Remember way back when to the first weekend in January (it feels like a million years ago), I asked you to asked you to write a bit about all of your good qualities and how freaking amazing you are? Some of you sent me yours and they were stunning. I could read them all day long.

Each of those emails voiced a similar feeling: that it’s hard to cast yourself in such a shining light1. It’s hard to view and write about yourself  with uninhibited positivity. 

We’ve been conditioned to look at ourselves critically, to pick ourselves apart looking for faults like a vulture scavenging meat from a carcass. 

We are so good at it. 

Like, Olympic level good. 

What a stupid skill.

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