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Category: Identity & Worth

The Primal Question core: approval, performance, worth, and who you are versus who you want to be.

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Recovery & Healing

Oversharing Is Caring

If you’ve been following my blog lately, you may have noticed a pattern. I wrote about my approval addiction. I wrote about my ongoing battle…

8 min read
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Identity & Worth

Approval Addiction: The Performance Treadmill

Hi, my name is Justin, and I’m an approval addict.There, I said it. If you’ve ever found yourself rehearsing a conversation in your head for…

9 min read
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Identity & Worth

Integrity is Structural

For a long time, I thought integrity meant being the buttoned-up guy who never messes up. The stuffy shirt who looks down on everyone else.…

6 min read
Identity & Worth

The Stick That Stuck

What’s brown and sticky? A stick. It’s a dumb joke, but it’s one of my faves. I am a dad after all.It also happens to…

5 min read
Growth Practices

Goals, Shmoals

Recently I’ve started following the work of James Clear. He seems to be (at least trying to be) a 21st century version of Stephen Covey or maybe…

3 min read

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