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Sep 14Liked by alycia

What an incredible

Article. 💕I really felt like you were writing about me. Which means you are writing about us all.

I bet if you asked 10 successful substackers they all feel the same way.

Why do we care so much about how others rate us judge us accept us. Omg.

It’s time to be done with that. That is my 62/63 year old self talking, so so so tired of us judging ourselves

Like we are others.

I pressed the eject button on what my family said to me for years and then continued by saying it to myself over again. No more. Time for

Change.

You are very clear. I love my guilded cage. Yea it’s safe. Yea it’s comfy. We have made it that way just for us.

Every time I try and leave I can’t wait to go home where I am happy talented and popular with myself hahaha

Thanks for the article. Looking forward to more. I would love to write but pretty sure I wouldn’t be able to press send 😅😎

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Thank you so much, this comment touches me and motivates me to coninue; we have this tendency to become our own worst enemy, to self-sabotage just to please those we've been condtioned to since childhood. We create a golden prison where we suffer but it's comfortable. It's time to change, because we have the right to express ourselves, even if it doesn't suit our family, because we have to live our lives.

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