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When You Notice You’re Running Someone Else’s Race (opens the original)
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After writing about the seventh grader who finished far behind the eighth graders and came off the track excited because he had beaten his own best time, I kept thinking about what happens when we try to live this way. Understanding the idea is easy. Remembering it when someone touches one of our insecurities is much harder.For me, one of those places i… Read more
What If Your Only Competition Was You? (opens the original)
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We spend so much of life looking sideways… at other people, their achievements, their appearance, their progress. But there may be a more freeing way to measure ourselves: against our own best. Matt and Alona explore what it means to slow down, reconnect with ourselves, and celebrate progress on our own terms. Read more
He Finished Last and Thought He Won (opens the original)
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A friend told me a story about her son the other day that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about. He’s in seventh grade and recently started running track with a group of eighth graders. And they were crushing him. Not barely beating him. Not the kind of race where everyone crosses the finish line within a few seconds of each other and you can tell yourself you almost had them.He was finishing something like many minutes behind the slowest eighth grader.His mom was watching this happen, and
Beyond Boundaries (opens the original)
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After I finished writing My Picture of Dorian Gray, I realized something, I had been telling myself a story.The story was that I needed better boundaries. And to be fair, I did.For someone who had spent much of her life saying yes, accommodating, helping, anticipating, and overriding herself, boundaries were an essential part of my healing.But as I sat … Read more
When an Uncomfortable Reflection Becomes a Gift (opens the original)
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What happens when someone shows us a side of ourselves we don't particularly like? Our instinct may be to defend, blame, avoid, or feel ashamed. But sometimes that uncomfortable reflection is exactly what we need… a chance to notice where we're out of integrity and recognize that we have the agency to show up differently. Read more
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