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Happy Friday, Mighties! 😊

Exploring, owning, and expressing confidence can be a lifelong practice. It often takes self-awareness and compassion, especially as we learn how to see and understand ourselves more clearly. There may be moments when our confidence wanes, feels dependent on external factors, or grows stronger depending on where we are or what we’re doing. In those moments of clarity, our confidence can feel grounded and energizing, motivating us to better understand and trust ourselves.

💌 Gentle reminder: If confidence feels like a challenging topic for you, that’s OK — we get it. Our health, for example, can absolutely impact our confidence levels. Please know that you deserve those moments when your confidence peeks out or even thrives. We’re here with you wherever you are on that journey. We’re cheering you on and holding space for you.

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Adulting can be challenging for many reasons. One of the biggest can be the “harsh,” difficult, eye-opening, comforting, or even transformative realizations that come from experiences shaping and reshaping your perspective.

Mighty staffer @sparklywartanks recently realized that she’ll have to do things even when she feels scared or anxious. If she wants better opportunities, she has to work through what she once believed she couldn’t. She constantly reminds herself that it’s OK to ask for help and that she doesn’t have to know everything. She doesn’t have to have it all figured out.

What’s a realization you’ve had recently?

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Hi, Mighties! 🌟

How is your body feeling today? Are you experiencing any pain, fatigue, or discomfort? How would you rate it? What ways are you finding relief?

Feel free to check in using emojis, metaphors, words, scales, or phrases in the comments below. ⤵️

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Happy Monday, Mighties! ☃️

It’s a pretty cold and wintry day for Mighty staffer @sparklywartanks . She’s currently watching a blizzard from her window, which reminded her of the storms her mom used to talk about when she was growing up. “There was so much snow in the Blizzard of ’96!” she would say. 😂

Her city is having a snow day today, and it brings back memories. Growing up, she had to go to school no matter the weather. 😩❄️

What was your experience? Did you have snow days or other weather-related days off when you were growing up?

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Mighty staffer @sparklywartanks was recently having an interesting conversation about the definition of “normal,” especially as it relates to managing a mental health condition. It got her thinking about how she defines “normal” and how she learned to recognize the difference between her symptoms and her true personality.

She realized that her definition of “normal” has changed over time. Ultimately, she feels it’s her relationship with self-awareness that helps guide what “normal” means to her each day.

What are your thoughts? How do you define “normal” while living with a health condition? How does your relationship with your health shape that definition?

Feel free to share your insights below! 👇💭

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Mighties, let’s picture ourselves on a road trip right now. If your symptoms were in charge of the music, what song would they choose to play? What makes that song a good fit for today? 📻🎵

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As we take in information from educational spaces, our environments, or our lived experiences, certain strategies, patterns, or methods may work best for retaining and processing that information. This might look like listening, seeing visuals, engaging in hands-on activities, being in specific environments, taking notes, relying on particular resources, or even using a combination of styles depending on what we’re learning.

What’s your favorite way to learn something new? What learning style works best for you?

Share your insights and experiences below and/or choose from the following list:

a. Visual: I learn by seeing 👀
b. Auditory: I learn by listening 👂
c. Kinesthetic: I learn by doing 🙌
d. Reading/Writing: I learn by writing things down and reading information 📝📖

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Happy Monday, Mighties! 🌄

How was your weekend? What’s the week ahead looking like? Share the theme you’re stepping into, a plan you have, or something highlighted on your calendar — all using emojis below!

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Every year around Valentine’s Day, Mighty staffer @sparklywartanks reflects on what love really means to her. Having experienced a lot of rejection in the past, she’s often met with heartbreak, grief, and sadness around this time.

This year, though, she wants to reflect on how much effort she’s put into developing a better understanding of love—not only in the romantic sense, but as an energy and a practice. Her relationship with herself, as a person in recovery, hasn’t always been bright. But she has created more light by learning to love herself unconditionally, even through the darkest moments.

She’ll never give up on herself—and love has taught her that.

What about you? What has your health taught you about love?

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Fears can develop or resurface for many different reasons and at various points in our lives. Identifying, acknowledging, processing, and eventually overcoming them can take time, patience, self-awareness, and practice. That doesn’t mean the fear won’t come up again—but responding to it with more confidence, care, and compassion when it does is also part of overcoming it.

What’s a fear you want to overcome—or are currently working through? What would overcoming that fear look like for you?

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