Jobs come and go.

My salary gets higher.

My title gets more impressive. I lose track of what my actual skill more impressive.

I lose track of what my actual skill set is, but that's okay, because I have another skill.

I can survive.

I know what people out here value.

I know what kind of person to be.

I can read the room and give people exactly what they want.

You might not know Meredith Shappek-Arthur personally, but you know someone like her,

or maybe you're like her, accomplished, fun, competent, effortless in the way she succeeds in pretty much everything. But here's the thing Meredith can't admit for decades. All that success isn't

effortless at all. In fact, it's destroying her from

within. In this episode of Meditative Story, Meredith describes what happens when your external

and inner selves have very different needs. Things get rough in her life, but that's how she

learns what must happen and who she must become.

I'm very happy for Meredith 2.0.

She's the author of Get Out of My Head,

inspiration for overthinkers in an anxious world,

and she's responsible for the website Beautiful Voyager,

for overthinkers, perfectionists and people-pleases.

Perhaps some of those words resonate in your life.

In this series, we combine immersive first-person stories, breathtaking music, and

mindfulness prompts so that we may see our lives reflected back to us in other people's stories.

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