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The healing process continued for me as I opened my heart up more and more. I began to feel better not only mentally, but even physically.

I realized that building resilience and practicing self-compassion were essential to overcoming perfectionism and overcome faking my identity. I wanted to change my ways and better myself, but I knew it wasn't going to be easy.

But I wanted to take this challenge anyway. Because in the end I knew the outcome was going to be worth the hardships I would have to overcome.

I learned to acknowledge and accept my emotions that I was feeling. Both positive and negative emotions. This helped me better control what I was feeling at different points in a day. This even helped me better choose how to properly react to a situation.

I even started to practice mindfulness and started to look inward to my spiritual beliefs to help me relax when times would get tough.

I began to develop a growth mindset and learned to reframe challenges. I was maturing as a person and learning to navigate the harsh reality of the world. Trying to balance out the good and the bad within my life and acting according to what sees fit to each situation. 

I learned to protoize self-care and set more healthy boundaries for myself. I started to take care of my body more and even started to eat healthier foods. In turn my body responded to this wonderfully and I began to feel happier with myself. 

I even tried my hand at cultivating a small community for myself here on Wattpad. To help those with advice or help with some writing tips and tricks for the next up-coming authors.

I did my best to practice self-compassion and treat myself with kindness. As myself deserves to be treated with kindness, free from judgement from myself, and free from negative thoughts and feelings.

I looked onward in focusing on progress, not perfection. That progress was going to be key into becoming the person I wanted to truly be and express to everyone I would meet during the day.

I learned to embrace failure and setbacks as opportunities for growth. As it's necessary to recognize failure as a way of learning and discovering, not to make us feel bad. If we were all winners, this world would be boring to live in. 

I started to prioritize my well-being and taking care of my physical health. It needed it just as much as my mind did in order to feel better about myself and continue this path of resilience and self-compassion. 

I began to listen to my intuition and trust my own instincts more. Especially when it came to other people. With who to trust, not to trust. Who to let into my tiny circle, who to not let into my tiny circle. It gave me the judgement that I needed to ensure that I have people who are supportive of me and willing to help me continue on my path to bettering myself as a person. Not letting bad people poison my mind and setting me back to where I started, losing all the progress I made for myself. So in turn, I made sure to pick and choose carefully who I interact with, and those who I wave a goodbye to.

I started to practice gratitude and focus on the present moment. It was important for me to shift my mind from constantly thinking about the past, to making my mind focus on the here and now. 

I learned to let go of self-criticism and negative self-talk. That it was more important for me to think positively about myself and to allow more positive thinking into my life. 

I began to start cultivating a sense of purpose and meaning in the world. I didn't feel as if I was a burden to anyone or even to myself.  I felt as if I was like anyone else, a person with a purpose and meaning in life. Whatever that life is going to be for me I can't wait to find out.

I learned to prioritize my values and align them with my actions. It helped me greatly with acting towards someone or a situation much better. 

I started to live with intention and purpose. It was a great feeling to be feeling. To know that I am maturing and setting boundaries where they needed to be planted. Learning to allow growth take root into my life and hold a significance in my everyday life.

I was starting to like this new version of me. She was much nicer, kinder, more understanding to those around her. She listened more than she tried to speak so she could get a feel of those around her and act accordingly, with a calm, gentle tone.

There was no more negative thinking, no shouting at people who didn't understand my way of thinking, no taking control over a situation, no exposing people for petty things, no stalking, no losing close people or losing the whole account itself. There was no long headaches or worry over whether or not people where going to understand or not.

I just simply don't have to worry anymore. There's no more stress, only peace. Peace with my mind and peace within myself. I only express peace and kindness now and want to share it with everyone else who's around me. That peace is the ultimate way to overcoming anything negative in one's life.

There's simply no better way to express it other than through positive actions to show people that anyone can allow peace to enter into their hearts, into their souls.