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What Does It Cost to be More Authentic?

Reflections on letting go of people-pleasing (and the mask)...

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Chelsey Flood
Sep 23, 2022
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Primavera from my pov

Writing this, I am at the tail end of a cold that I'm not sure is actually a cold. It arrived the morning after a day-long festival when I woke dehydrated, achy and feeling hungover though I hadn’t drunk any booze.

I got my partner and some of his family tickets for the Forward Festival in Bristol as it took place on his birthday wee…

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