Prioritize Yourself Without Guilt

Jolie A. Doggett
ZORA
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1 min readJan 5, 2021

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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…

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Jolie A. Doggett
ZORA
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