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Struggle

A collection of 5 posts

Inadequacy

It’s the feeling of giving everything you have–your time, your energy, your desire–and finding it still wasn’t enough. Despite your best efforts, you couldn’t perform, you couldn’t be who you wanted to be. And it’s not the failure itself that’s so painful,

Leaning In vs Pulling Back

As discussed in the last post, struggle can be categorized into either pain or discomfort. Pain should be discouraged, while discomfort should be embraced… well, most of the time. If we’re always advancing towards something, we risk missing out on what’s right in front of us. If we

Pain vs Discomfort

As humans have evolved over hundreds of thousands of years, we’ve developed physiological and psychological responses to threats. Our mind, however, doesn’t always distinguish between what’s life-threatening and what’s merely unpleasant. We experience struggle all the same. With some insight though, we can examine the nature

Forms Of Struggle

Struggle is negative emotion. It’s an indicator that something is wrong. Struggle is part of the human experience but that doesn’t mean it can’t be resolved. Recognition of struggle is always the first step towards relief. Once we’ve identified that we’re struggling with something we

Recognizing Struggle

Negative feelings and emotions are part of the human experience. As often as we are up, we are down. Much of the time we’re in a bad mood, however, we’re unaware of it. Something’s off, but we don’t realize it. And when we’re oblivious to