You may need to consider taking steps towards emotional healing if you, like many do, tend to bottle up difficult emotions. Grief, sadness, anxiety, depression, addiction, unhealthy obsessions, anger. We hide them in the basement of our minds and continue living under the pretense that they are gone.

By all counts and measures, feeling like a failure is a real thing. In an age fuelled by social media, with its filtered images and glamorous stories, our accomplishments can seem small in comparison, making it easy to feel like we’re falling behind.

Many of us have trouble accepting ourselves fully. We find it easy to appreciate our strengths, but when it comes to our flaws and failures, we develop an overwhelming sense of judgment and rejection.