Not Being Enough
Subscribe Free You were born whole. Before words, before wounds, before comparison, you were complete. But as life unfolded, the world taught you to measure yourself against others, to chase approval, to doubt your own brilliance. Somewhere along the way, you stopped seeing the sacred perfection of your own existence. The feeling of not being enough often begins in childhood, in a parent’s silence, a teacher’s comparison, a friend’s rejection. These moments plant seeds of doubt that grow into forests of self-criticism. Later, society waters them with its impossible standards: flawless beauty, relentless achievement, and the illusion that love and belonging must be earned. When your sense of self isn’t rooted in something deeper, the world will easily convince you that you are incomplete. But healing begins the moment you turn inward, when you stop fighting yourself and start listening with compassion. When you breathe through your pain and let it speak its truth. When ...