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'I Can't Stop Punishing Myself in Small Ways!'

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'I Can't Stop Punishing Myself in Small Ways!'

If you want to develop good habits, you have to honor your most frivolous desires.

Heather Havrilesky
Oct 21, 2021
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Morning Glory with Black (1926) by Georgia O’Keeffe

Dear Polly,

I can’t stop punishing myself in small ways.

When I moved to the U.S. a decade ago, from halfway across the world, I felt like an alien in so many ways, a stranger to this new place and all of its contexts. I had no one — just my mom, my aunt and my younger cousin who I lived with in San Franc…

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