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Every day is different

Imani A.
2 min readAug 25, 2024

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They all bring different opportunities for me to continue creating the life experiences that I want to have; to walk in alignment with mind, body and spirit.

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Funny, it goes back to another conversation with dad earlier in the year about shame, and how we empower it and how that plays out in making us prefer the innocuousness of obscurity; (The Soul Of Shame, Retelling The Stories We Believe About Ourselves, Curt Thompson is an incredible resource)

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And how pervasive it is such that we refrain from walking in our truth because of the scrutiny that it then has our personas at and the unfortunate stance that vulnerability, much as is the most authentic way to show up, has always been used against the people who do try to embody that;

And now are stuck in a case of cyclic shame that bounds on even tighter the more you choose to empower narratives, stories and expectations that are not your own.

Asé

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Imani A.
Imani A.

Written by Imani A.

Between research projects on sustainable socioeconomic development that interface business, policy and innovation, I have some classic millennial rants on here.

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