The One You Feed | Personal Growth, Emotional Resilience & Purpose How to Discover Yourself, One Decision at a Time | Sara Kuburic
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Oct 30, 2026 
Sara Kuburic, an existential psychotherapist, columnist, and author, explores how identity emerges through everyday decisions. She shares her journey from surviving war to building a successful but disconnected life, and examines responsibility without self-blame, the limits of understanding the past, reclaiming choice from obligation, and the courage to make authentic decisions with real consequences.
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The Childhood Trauma Sara Thought Was Normal
- Sara Kuburic’s wartime childhood made her distrustful and self-protective rather than playful and expressive.
- She normalized sleeping in bomb shelters until a therapist pointed out that this was not an ordinary childhood experience.
Responsibility Became Sara’s Path To Healing
- Sara initially saw trauma’s effects as personal weakness, then asked how to stop hating her life.
- She distinguished being victimized from being responsible for healing, saying responsibility ultimately saved her life.
The Successful Life That Felt Completely Wrong
- Sara looked successful in graduate school, marriage, and community life while suffering panic attacks privately.
- When a friend asked whether she was happy, she began crying and no longer recognized the hollow person in the mirror.
