You Will Suffer Terribly if You Don't Take Active Participation in Your Self-Creation

Anxiety could be your guide to becoming who you truly are (supposed to be)

by Myriam Tillson “This is the essence of neurosis—the person’s unused potentialities…” -Rollo May (Man’s Search for Himself) You are not a whole individual. And if you don’t try to become one, you might go insane. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a whole individual, either. I’m writing this from the position of a fellow explorer of human existence, not a wise sage waiting for you at the top of the mountain. And, of course, I don’t know every single one of you reading this, so I gave myself quite a bit of freedom with the opening statement. But becoming an individual is a more difficult task…

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