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the true YOU blog

For years I had this aching feeling that something was missing from my life.
I realized it was ME.
I have reclaimed my authentic self and I write about it here. I also coach and lead workshops helping other women to be their real, vibrant, authentic selves.


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Suzanne C. Carver
May 2, 2024
The Challenges of Being Your Authentic Self
Learning to be our true self is like learning to walk. Don’t put yourself near people who might inadvertently push you over.
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Suzanne C. Carver
Apr 25, 2024
Listen to Your Body: A Letter From My Body
You have diminished me for the last time. I will never again trade my unique perfection for some arbitrary ideal, for some grand lie.
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Suzanne C. Carver
Apr 18, 2024
26 Beliefs You Think Are Yours but Are Really Cultural Conditioning
It’s a process of making the unconscious conscious. We make our conditioning external so we can examine and question it.
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Suzanne C. Carver
Apr 11, 2024
The Transformational Power of an Eclipse
It’s not science versus spirituality. Science is hard at work attempting to understand things that are, at the root, are spiritual.
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Suzanne C. Carver
Apr 4, 2024
Freedom From Weight Obsession
Weight obsession: when how much we weigh or the size/shape of our bodies determines our sense of worth, value and power.
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Suzanne C. Carver
Mar 28, 2024
How to be the True You: Uncovering Your Authentic Self.
We search for the thing that will make us feel alive and fulfilled, not realizing we are the treasure we seek. We are the gem.
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Suzanne C. Carver
Mar 21, 2024
Mind Liberation. It's All About Deconditioning.
It can be scary and lonely to abandon cultural or familial norms. But so is living severed from your true self.
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Suzanne C. Carver
Mar 14, 2024
What is Your Authentic Body?
When we create an authentic experience in our bodies, we will easily settle into our authentic shape and size.
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Suzanne C. Carver
Dec 21, 2023
Five Easy Steps To Ruin Christmas
Here is my propriety formula for how to ruin Christmas.
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Suzanne C. Carver
Nov 29, 2023
I Would be a Better Writer if I Was a Dog
I sit before my laptop, empty and uninspired. I summon ideas; they decline. The daily war of art ensues. My dog lies beside me in her...
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Suzanne C. Carver
Aug 15, 2023
Why Parents Need to Let Their Kids Struggle (Just a Little)
Resiliency. We know it’s a good thing, something worth instilling in our kids. Sure. Though maybe not right now.
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Suzanne C. Carver
Apr 7, 2023
It Was Just Supposed to be a Good Basketball Game
Imagine if white people put half the amount of energy into investigating our role in racism as we do in calling black people out.