Jessica Matthew’s Reviews > The Gifts of Imperfection > Status Update

“I’ve spent most of my life trying to outrun vulnerability and uncertainty. I wasn’t raised with the skills and emotional practice needed to “lean into discomfort”.”

“It’s so much easier to say “I’ll be whoever or whatever you need me to be, as long as I can feel like I’m part of this”. From group thinking to gossip, we’ll do what it takes to fit in if we believed it will meet our need for belonging. But it doesn’t. We can only belong when we offer our most authentic selves and when we’re embraced for who we are.”

“Because only true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self acceptance.”