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What Your Best Friend Knows That You've Forgotten ambition guilt boundaries friendship guilt permission rest guilt self-compassion systems women Dec 13, 2025

It’s 10:47pm. You’re on your best friend’s couch, a glass of wine in your hand. Her kids are asleep down the hall. Yours are home with your partner. You just said the thing you never say.

That you sn...

Wanting More Doesn't Mean Ungrateful ambition ambition guilt guilt permission Dec 13, 2025

It’s 11:14pm and you’re scrolling LinkedIn in bed.

Someone you used to work with just announced something—a promotion, a launch, a pivot into exactly the kind of work you’ve been circling in your min...

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