Tripping towards growth
Transformation in unexpected places
Being self-conscious is a normal part of the human experience.
It also sucks.
It’s not difficult to see where my seeds of self-consciousness were planted, eventually growing into an unruly pile of weeds. For example, there was my first-grade teacher who humiliated me over my Korean middle name (경훈) at circle time, leaving me self-conscious about my “weir…