Is is as if life or reality itself has had it in mind all along to unravel the very design i have been trying all along to impose on it.
You__e not fine. You__e not. And that__ OK. The first thing I want you to do is to finally tell yourself that it__ OK not to be OK. To accept that you__e feeling badly and that something isn__ right. Too many of us are in denial because we think that to admit there__ something wrong means we__e weak or broken or odd. I don__ know if it__ society, or just who we associate with, but we need to change our way of thinking. We are not weak. We are not broken. We are not odd.
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You__e not fine. You__e not. And that__ OK. The first thing I want you to do is to finally tell yourself that it__ OK not to be OK. To accept that you__e feeling badly and that something isn__ right. Too many of us are in denial because we think that to admit there__ something wrong means we__e weak or broken or odd. I don__ know if it__ society, or just who we associate with, but we need to change our way of thinking. We are not weak. We are not broken. We are not odd.
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