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Savannah is raising awareness about social anxiety by The home of Fixers on Flickr
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  • Post category:Behaviour / Mental health / Positive change
  • Post published:December 28, 2016

Your stories, memories, and experiences have shaped your personality but they are still only stories. They may have been real once, but are definitely not real now. They exist only inside your head, as fleeting thoughts, beliefs, pictures, and ideas of “self”.

Source: Awakening To What We Are @ Truth Contest

Photo: Savannah is raising awareness about social anxiety by The home of Fixers on Flickr under Creative Commons license

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