self-exploration
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Through this journey of self-exploration I have come to realize how coercive gender-identity ideology was for me, disguising harm as compassion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
Others see it as a statement on the pressures of commercial music, or simply the next step in his journey of self-exploration.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2026
“Through decades of self-exploration and groundbreaking scientific studies, Wim has created a simple, effective way to stimulate these deep physiological processes and realize our full potential,” it states.
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2024
For others, however, improv classes are all about self-care and self-exploration.
From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2023
The delight of self-exploration, or the possibly even greater delight of losing one's self in trying to fathom femininity, is a sensation equally foreign to his temperament.
From The Soul of the Far East by Lowell, Percival
It’s not unusual to meet a modern music lover with an iPod full of opera, country-and-western ballads, show tunes, punk-rock classics, hip-hop remixes, celebrity duets and sensitive singer-songwriter self-explorations.
From New York Times ● Oct. 9, 2015
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