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Sanctimommy, Hot Mess Mom, & the Elusive Third Path to Personal Growth
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Sanctimommy, Hot Mess Mom, & the Elusive Third Path to Personal Growth

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Alyssa Allegretti
Mar 30, 2025
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Sanctimommy, Hot Mess Mom, & the Elusive Third Path to Personal Growth
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To make a change we need both personal responsibility and self compassion. Different factions of social media discourse tend to overemphasize one at the expense of the other. When we are learning something new, too much self compassion can tip into defeat and complacency, whereas too much personal responsibility can tip into self blame or loss of compas…

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