Build on Your Strengths

Build on Your Strengths

Orbiting vs. Anchoring: Learning to Stay in Your Own Gravity

Orbiting comes at a cost: you lose track of yourself.

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Build on Your Strengths
Aug 14, 2025
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When someone you care about hasn’t responded yet, chaos takes over in your head, your inner critic questions your worth, another part wonders what you did wrong, another insists they’ve lost interest.

That’s orbiting.

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