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You hit the target. Got the promotion. Proved you belonged. And somewhere underneath all of it, a quiet question that never quite goes away: was it enough?

For a lot of high performers, self-worth got tied to net worth long before there was ever a c

You’re in the middle of a hard conversation. Your partner says something that lands hard, and instead of words, you get silence. Your face goes still. You can’t find a single sentence. From the outside, it might look like you’ve che

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Most of us learned to respond to pain, our own or someone else’s, with a question that sounds like an accusation. Why did you do that. What is wrong with you. Even when it is never said out loud, it is often the question underneath the silence.

Each of these was one sentence long, and some of them probably landed harder than expected.

That’s not an accident. Behind almost every pattern like this is a part of you that found a way to stay safe, a long time ago, often before you had any

John Cummins

Somatic Therapy & Coaching · Zurich

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