The Truth about Approval-Seeking

By Amy Johnson. Posted on Sep 25th 2012.

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Move past approval-seeking and become okay with who you really are.

You can do this. It only feels tough because you have so much practice making other people’s opinions more important than your own. But once you turn the tide and start a new practice, things change quickly and you get to spend the next 20,000 or so days in a being exactly who you are.

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