Grow the Skin on your Soul
The journey to self-love
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4 min readJul 26, 2023
I struggled with my self-image for years, because I came from a world that had me believe that who I was deserved to be punished.
When someone yelled at me, threatened me, or deprived me of their affection, I truly believed those were the consequences of my actions, and that I must have done something that made me unworthy of being liked.