CULTIVATING A RELATIONSHIP WITH SELF:
1. Remove the discomfort around being alone. Take the time to learn yourself, by yourself. Do it often.
2. Start anew. Pretend you are learning to love a stranger. Familiarize yourself with even the most menial aspects of yourself, learn it wholly.
3. Understand and accept that you have changed, you are changing, and you will change. Attach yourself to nothing too tightly if you want to grow.
4. Grow more comfortable listening to the faint impulse within you. Follow it as much as you can, no matter how faint until you can hear it clearly.
5. Cherish your relationships with others, but refrain from making it the basis of your identity. You are “you” before you’re anyone’s sibling, child, partner.
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