Prioritize Yourself Without Guilt

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Happy New Year, ZORA fam. We hope you’re starting 2021 with the intention to put yourself and your needs first. But we know this does not always come easy. In her column, Five Things, Medium writer Ashley C. Ford expresses the difficulty in speaking up for yourself and what you want.

“Naming what I want, and actually following through, feels like I’ve gotten away with something,” Ford writes. “It’s fascinating how attempts at centering myself feel like stealing. I’m still getting used to getting my way sometimes, for asking for what I want and unburdening myself from what I don’t.”

Read more about how Ashley is learning how to work toward her dreams and enforce her boundaries in the story below.

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