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Why you (maybe) shouldn't hate yourself

+Some questions about what love means

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Samantha Rose McRae
Apr 15, 2024
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Eclipse, April 8, 2024

Confronting who we are as people, deep down in our being, can be hard.

We often hear that we dislike certain traits in others because they are reflections of parts of ourselves with which we struggle- known as “projection”1- and we hate others (or parts of them) because we fear the same to be true about ourselves.2 We might hate when …

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