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#80 The Girl Before the Woman: How Our Past Shapes More Than We Realise
For years, I looked at the woman I'd become and asked what was wrong with me.
I rarely asked about the girl who came before her.
The child who learned to be good and stay out of trouble. Who experienced abuse she couldn't understand. Who learned to keep things quiet. Who was bullied at twelve and began measuring her body, clothes, voice and laugh against other girls. Who later believed changing her appearance might finally make her feel enough.
These experiences looked like separate chapters for decades.
Eventually, I began seeing the threads between them.
In this deeply personal episode of…
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