6 Lessons in Self-Preservation

Musings from my mental breakdown.

Kristen Abram
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4 min readFeb 3, 2023

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I think most of us reach a point in life where we realize we are spending far too much energy trying to make people happy. Trying not to “let anyone down". Often to our own detriment. If you have not reached this point, I pray you take the lessons I learned and use them to your benefit so you never have to.

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Kristen Abram
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Loving mom and wife, living the homestead dream. Urban homesteading, preparing to head north and build a farm from scratch.