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The Raft: Outgrowing People, Places, Roles, and Chapters of Your Life
This episode explores a simple story with a lot of psychological weight: the raft you build to survive one season of life isn’t the vessel you’re meant to carry forever. We talk about outgrowing anything that once kept you afloat — relationships, belief systems, workplaces, identities, recovery communities, or roles your family needed you to play.
I walk through the parable of the raft in plain language, connect it to real developmental transitions, and break down what differentiation actually looks like in adulthood:
letting go without rejecting your past
growing without apologizing for it…
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