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#408 🔸 Why your happiness is not someone else's responsibility and what changes when you truly understand this

18 Aug 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman

  Absorbed family beliefs, which I wrote about last time, profoundly shape what we believe we deserve and from whom. And one of the most frequently inherited beliefs, with direct consequences on relationships, is this: that my happiness depends on wh...

#407 🔸 How many of your beliefs about love, money, and worth actually belong to someone else

17 Aug 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman

  The inability to receive joy, which I wrote about last time, has roots deeper than they appear on the surface. And one of the deepest roots, probably the deepest, is the belief system we absorbed in our family of origin. Not the beliefs we delibera...

#406 🔸 Why you sabotage the good things in your life and how to learn to receive happiness without destroying it

16 Aug 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman

  Identity uncertainty, which I wrote about last time, is one of the forms in which we do not know how to be with ourselves. But there is another form of powerlessness towards our own person, more subtle and less often recognised: the inability to re...

#405 🔸 Why not knowing who you are is not a crisis but perhaps the most courageous place you can be

16 Aug 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman

  Making peace with our younger versions, which I wrote about last time, requires accepting that identity is not a fixed point but a continuous process. And if it is a continuous process, it means there are moments when you are in the middle of it, w...

#404 🔸 Why you judge the person you were so harshly and how to make peace with them

15 Aug 2026 3 minute read 1 comment luciman

  Faithfulness to your own vision, which I wrote about last time, requires a clear relationship with who you are now. But there is a tension that complicates this relationship more than we acknowledge: the way we relate to our younger versions. To th...

#403 🔸 What to do when everyone around you does not understand what you see and how not to lose yourself in that solitude

14 Aug 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman

  The emotional alphabet, which I wrote about last time, helps us understand ourselves better. But there are moments when, even with all possible inner clarity, you find yourself facing an obstacle of a different kind: you are not understood by those...

#402 🔸 Why you do not know what you truly feel and how to learn to read your own emotions

13 Aug 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman

  Working with the shadow, which I wrote about last time, requires a skill many of us were not given: the capacity to name what we feel with precision. Not in vague terms, not in broad categories of good or bad, but with that emotional granularity th...

#401 🔸 What happens to the part of you that you buried and how to stop it from leading in your place

13 Aug 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman

  The sense of not belonging, which I wrote about last time, brings us to a deeper question: why do we sometimes not fit even with ourselves? Why is there a distance between who we show ourselves to be and what we experience internally? The answer is...

#400 🔸 Why you feel like you belong nowhere and what that tells you about who you truly are

12 Aug 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman

  Curiosity about one's own person, which I wrote about last time, sometimes opens uncomfortable territories. And one of the most uncomfortable, because it is the least honestly discussed, is the sense of not belonging. The feeling that you do not fi...

#399 🔸 Why you stopped exploring yourself and how to start again

11 Aug 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman

  The voice of insufficiency, which I wrote about last time, does something specific and subtle: it convinces us that we already know ourselves, that we are already mapped, that there is nothing left to discover inside except deficiencies. And this c...