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title & description the freedom to despise yourself: an anarchist path to self-love this is for people who throw up at the idea of self-love, or are resistant to it somehow. it turns out there is something more important than self-love. it’s freedom
charging one dollar as i don’t want to feel bad if anyone buys this and thinks its complete unedited horseshit it’s me dipping a toe into the reality where i write good, long stuff and people pay me for it write 100 things
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@AskYatharth see this exchange I had with my past self altho also it turned out that I actually did need more softness! but that allowing that softness/gentleness, myself, at the time, would have fucked up my high-pressure relationships, which I wasn't prepared to do! https://t.co/ID2pFv2fOR
PSA: if the idea of "talk to yourself lovingly" sounds awful, consider that your concept of what "lovingly" is might be someone else's concept—you need to find your own instead. As just 1 example: excerpt of an exchange I had with myself 2y ago: loving, also hardass-&-knows-it. https://t.co/mixyhJTJTQ https://t.co/b6g72bxcY5
