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#422 🔸 Why you judge yourself just as harshly in difficult times as in good ones and what it costs you

27 Aug 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.05

Gratitude towards the flaws that make us human, which I wrote about last time, requires a certain gentleness towards oneself that is hardest to access precisely when it is most needed: in difficult periods. When you are ill, exhausted, grieving, in...

#422 🔸 Why you judge yourself just as harshly in difficult times as in good ones and what it costs you

#383 🔸 What to do with yourself on the days when you are nowhere near your best version

1 Aug 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.03

Unburdening ourselves of parental expectations, which I wrote about last time, leaves a freer space inside. But in that freer space, sometimes without the externalised critical voice to guide us, we confront our own failures directly. And precisely...