Do You Limit Yourself To Make Others Comfortable?

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When it’s part of your heritage

“From a historical standpoint, certain ethnicity groups are pre-wired to dim their own light,” explains Davis. “That’s a component a lot of people don’t think about as they’re transitioning into adulthood or motherhood or their careers. That pre-wiring sets the tone of dimming one’s light instinctually. In therapy, you learn to think ‘Let me step out of that shadow of historically dimming my light.’”