
Freedom is our birthright yet the very things that make us free - authenticity, vulnerability, and acceptance are not aligned with society's values. Anyone else think this is weird? (Want to learn about my Hug Memoir? Check out my Rebel Hugger substack.)
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This past election has caused deep grief, fear, and anger for many, myself included.
It’s caused me to question how I want to authentically show up. This question has me split.
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As other kids gracefully moved through life, I always moved as though I had two left feet. Bruises covered my body from the doorways I knocked into and counters I clipped with my hip.
It’s an aspect of me that I’ve disliked the most.
I s...
“The reason we were too much as kids was because we weren’t believed. We had to speak louder, complain harder, be too much just to be acknowledged.” I said on a recent coaching zoom call.
I heard a noise behind me. A scoff.
I turned towa...
“Maybe it’s better to spend our energy being okay with what we don’t know than obsessing about trying to know what we can’t.”
This is a line from the book, “How To Be Eaten” by Maria Adelmann. It’s a buried line in a complex novel full of...
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Melinda Lee is a mom of two young men, a recovering perfectionist, and a ridiculously amazing weirdo. She is the author of Rebel Hugger and currently writing a handbook to humanity for neurodivergents.
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