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Judging Yourself at Your Worst to Somebody Else’s Best
I want to talk about something that’s real close in. Judging the crap out of yourself and over achieving to meet someone’s impossibly high standards. I think this is a difficult topic for a few reasons: One, because having a high standard and hard work ethic are rewarded in our society. And two, having…
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Home Ec: Why Don’t Schools Teach How to Run a Household?
I’m a social worker, and the population I work with are the chronically homeless. This means they’ve been homeless for 5 years or longer. Before I worked with this population, I viewed them mostly as lost causes. They seemed to me, so mentally ill, that there wasn’t anyway for them to come back. Or…