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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...

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You Don't Have to Earn Rest guilt permission rest rest guilt self-care Dec 13, 2025

It’s 9:47pm. The kids are finally asleep. The kitchen is mostly clean. You sit down on the couch for the first time since 6am.

And before your body even settles, the voice arrives.

You should switch...

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