You have found ways to make your wound productive. You turned the thing that broke you into the engine that drives you — and somewhere along the way, you started calling that a superpower. You are high-functioning and deeply exhausted, achieving without arriving, performing your way through life …
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499: You’re Trading Your Soul for Approval. Tyler Staton on Approval Addiction, the Illusion of Control, Embracing Human Limits, Moving at the Pace of the Soul, and Absorbing the Wrongs of Another
You've been filling your days to the brim and calling it faithfulness. Every hour accounted for. Every margin eliminated. You pull it all off, too, and you reach the end of the day unable to say why it felt empty. The people you love most were technically present, but you couldn't really see them. …