Category: my journey
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A New Year, A Calmer Nervous System
As 2026 begins, the author emphasizes the importance of slowing down and reflecting rather than rushing into resolutions. By focusing on practices like breath work, journaling, and traveling, one can better regulate their nervous…
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The Three Pivots: What 2025 Taught Me About Growth and Failure.
In 2025, the author learned that growth often resembles failure due to its non-linear nature. Key lessons included letting go of unhelpful habits, embracing patience, and trusting personal timing. They emphasize that discomfort is…
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The Quiet Truth About Life: Why Relationships Matter More Than Success
Social media has redefined success, valuing visibility over personal fulfillment. Hyper-independence emerges as a defense mechanism against vulnerability, creating distance in relationships. Strength, synonymous with endurance, lacks the depth of connection. This generation prioritizes…
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Beyond Policy: Your Personal Code for High-Integrity Support.
The post reflects on the transformative power of community and self-reflection for personal growth. It highlights the importance of feeling understood and safe in relationships, navigating beginnings, middles, and endings, and confronting change and…
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The Creator’s Paradox: Why True Value Requires Radical Vulnerability
The post explores the impact of external judgment on self-worth, emphasizing that criticism often feels like an attack on one’s identity. It advocates for separating output from self-worth, introducing strategies like a 24-hour response…
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The Self-Awareness Shift That Changed Everything for Me
Over the last few weeks, I have been doing internal work on myself. Not the kind of surface level “learn a skill” I have been analysing the way I feel around certain topics, pushing…
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When You Love Yourself, Life Starts Aligning
The author reflects on their journey of self-love following a traumatic brain injury, discovering it is okay to be different. Emphasizing self-worth, self-awareness, and boundaries, they illustrate how self-love brings balance in relationships and…
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You’re Not Overreacting: How TBI Creates an Overwhelmed Nervous System and 3 Counsellor Approved Strategies to Calm It.
Morgan Thain Miller is looking inward and reviewing her own trauma surrounding TBI. This has an effect on the nervous system by making you irritable and sensitive to noise and stressors. By looking at…
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I thought I was an open book, until I realised I wasn’t emotionally available
The author reflects on their past belief of being an “open book,” revealing that this was often a mask for people pleasing and oversharing. True emotional availability lies in genuine self-connection, which requires setting…
Makia by Morgan Thain-Miller 