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Why Success Doesn't Fix Trauma-Based Self-Worth Issues

I accomplished everything I thought would make me feel worthy but I still feel like a fraud waiting to be exposed and discarded.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

External validation cannot heal an internal wound that exists at the level of fundamental belonging.

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