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Authenticity and Self-Acceptance: A Discussion with Lift + Love

Conversations with Dr. Jennifer

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The Power of Choice

When you can't have both things, it pressures you to define your life through agency through choosing. It pushes you to give up the task of getting people to be happy with you in the same way earlier than others who can get it more readily. And when people learn to do that to sustain their sense of self, even with invalidation from others, they often find an inner strength to take deeper responsibility for their lives.

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