BAD AT KEEPING SECRETS

BAD AT KEEPING SECRETS

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The stories we tell ourselves

The stories we tell ourselves

Lisa Olivera, author of Already Enough: A Path to Self Acceptance, on the narratives that we cultivate in order to survive

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Carissa Potter
Feb 25, 2022
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Can you accept yourself as you are? Do you ever feeling like shame is running the show?

In her new book, Already Enough, Lisa Olivera writes about how to identify the stories we’ve been telling ourselves—so often based on shame or fear and so often necessary to our survival—and to maybe start telling ourselves some new ones. From her own experience being…

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