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Cultivating Self-Respect

A practice of aligning our behaviour with our values.

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Sarah Beck Mather
Dec 21, 2025
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Self-respect is frequently understood as a feeling - an internal quality one either has or lacks. The absence of it is framed as a personal failing, while its presence is often conflated with arrogance, suggesting an unease with the very idea of quiet self-regard.

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