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The songs on her new LP, due this week, juxtapose conflicting impulses and extremes of emotion: pleasure and paranoia, regret and resentment, estrangement and connection, self-affirmation and self-sabotage, mourning and healing.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2023

“I would just jettison all that Stuart Smalley stuff,” said Claude M. Steele, a social psychologist and professor emeritus at Stanford University who wrote a foundational paper on the psychology of self-affirmation.

From Washington Post • May 2, 2022

But is self-affirmation enough to put women on the path to success as equal workers and equal earners with equal power to shape the world?

From Salon • Aug. 22, 2021

And with Verstappen, it's more than mere cliche and self-affirmation.

From BBC • Jul. 15, 2021

Thus, to have sound value, these acts of non-resistance and self-sacrifice must rest on a solid foundation of self-affirmation and resistance to evil.

From The Soul of Democracy The Philosophy of the World War in Relation to Human Liberty by Griggs, Edward Howard