“Unveiling the Hidden Habits: How Growing Up Too Fast Shapes Adult Lives in Unexpected Ways”

For me, this showed up in everything from work to relationships. I remember one time at my first job out of school, I made a minor mistake on a report—nothing catastrophic, but it felt like the end of the world to me.

My boss was understanding and brushed it off as no big deal, but I couldn’t let it go. I spent the entire weekend beating myself up over it, replaying the situation in my head and thinking about how I “should have done better.”

Learning to soften that inner voice has been life-changing for me. One thing that helped was keeping a journal where I’d write down my critical thoughts but then challenge them with kinder responses—almost as if I were comforting a friend.

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