One of my biggest fears when I started my self-discovery & self-love journey was to become self-centered in egotic, narcissistic ways. Like me, you probably overheard people criticizing their friends' choices, complaining about how selfish they were because they said no to something or chose themselves over someone else's need or request. Which might have created a sense of discomfort, making you believe that : setting a boundary is bad listening to yourself and choosing your

"You have to learn to feel your emotions, to accept them, so you can learn to manage them." "You have to observe your reactions so you can stop them." "Mindfulness on a daily basis is the key." These are typical sentences that I heard myself say over and over again, by my friends, by my therapists, by my teachers... Sentences that, despite their kindness, have never had any other effect on me than to make me feel more like a failure than the others. And it is this same feelin

J'accepte la grande aventure d'être moi Simone de Beauvoir "I accept the great adventure of being me" This great adventure evoked by Simone de Beauvoir, is something that struck me during my first travels. At the beginning it was simple, if I hadn't taken my courage in both hands to assert myself and appreciate myself as I was, I surely wouldn't have gone very far. However, it was with a bit of a lump in my stomach and a rather shy attitude that I spent my first trips... unti

Love, in general, is already challenging, so love for HSP's, well, hello damage. I have always felt that I fall in love more intensely than others. When I look back at my teenage writings, I almost only talk about love. I have always had the desire, even the obsession, to understand where these feelings came from, why I felt things so intensely and why I always threw myself blindly into my relationships. Self-love, on the other hand, was a very late discovery. I had never co