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Feelings can be useful data points that allow one to understand how something is impacting a person. They are our road map to understanding ourselves and our world. And yet, it can be quite difficult to allow ourselves to “sit in a feeling”. Learning how to experience your emotions, instead of hiding from them, is important for improving relationships and understanding yourself.

Impostor syndrome, as it’s commonly known, refers to the experience of feeling inadequate or like a fraud, despite your achievements. This is a common phenomenon that up to 70% of people will experience in their lifetime.

Dominated by what we’ve come to know as hustle culture, American workplaces often consist of high pressure environments, excessive work hours, and unclear or creeping job roles, and the pressure to be self-sufficient and prove your worth through productivity and material gains.

The most important effort we put into our relationships are the small things we do on a day-to-day basis. Communicating care and affection. Making space for each other’s needs. Spending time enjoying each other’s company.

Group therapy can help you gain insight from people who have dealt with similar situations and can help to remind you that you’re not alone. Hearing other people talk about going through something that you’ve gone through can help lessen the stigma around your experience.

Self worth is our view on ourselves and how we do or don’t see ourselves as worthy of love, kindness, respect and rest, like anyone else. But it can be hard to connect to. People often find the easiest way to feel any sort of worth in themselves is to be impressively productive.