Hi Reader , I’ve been wanting to create something more than a newsletter - a real space for connection, support, and honest conversation. So I started a free Facebook community: Worthy & Whole: A Community for Women Rebuilding Self-Worth This is for women who are done chasing people who can’t meet them halfway, ready to rebuild their sense of self-worth, or quietly wondering if it’s time to leave a relationship that isn’t serving them. Inside, I’ll be sharing weekly reflections, tools, and...

Randi Corrigan middle school yearbook photo. The girl this article is about I had a rough weekend. The kind where getting out of bed feels impossible, your phone becomes a lifeline, and the harshest voice in your head won't stop screaming at you to get up and do something. I'm a therapist. I know better. And I still couldn't stop it. So I did what I do? I got curious. I started asking that voice where she came from. She took me all the way back to a condo I grew up in. My mother's addiction....

Not literally. But hear me out. Most of us learned our worth the way we learned to spell - from someone else, early, and without much say in the matter. A parent's approval. A grade. A comment that stuck longer than it had any right to. Somewhere along the way, the definition of you got written by people who were still figuring themselves out. And now you carry it around like it's official. Here's the thing about self-worth that nobody puts on a motivational poster: it's not something you...