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Self‐awareness is about understanding your needs, desires, failings, habits and what makes you tick. If you take the opportunity to learn about yourself, it will be easier to deal with life's challenges.

A big part of self‐awareness is understanding your emotions. As I mentioned before, it's okay to feel. Your emotions are valid. You will have feelings about yourself that are unpleasant. Sometimes these feelings stem from ANTs. Sometimes they occur because of something someone says about you, or something that happens to you.

It's normal to want to push down or ignore nasty feelings. Have you ever had a rush of anger or despair so strong that it feels like you can't cope? This happens because negative feelings build up inside us like a pressure chamber until, eventually, we can't contain them anymore and we either explode or experience a meltdown.

Being self‐aware means that instead of trying to hide your feelings, or push them away, you choose to pay attention to the emotion and what it's trying to tell you.