Your Suffering Is Not a Self-Improvement Exercise

Let go of the pressure to come out of this ‘a better person’

Nora McInerny
Forge
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3 min readNov 17, 2020

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Ten years ago, I was a deeply insecure 27-year-old walking home from a very good job that I hated with every inch of my being. I was sobbing into the phone to my best friend Dave, who was at Home Depot with his wife Megan.

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Nora McInerny
Forge
Writer for

Creator, Terrible thanks for Asking and Still Kickin. Author. Remarried Widow. Very tall.