Reader Submission
Some women write because they want to celebrate a change.
Others write because they want to explain something they only just understood themselves.
This reader wrote after realizing that being seen doesn’t automatically mean being judged—and how that small shift changed the way she carries herself every day.
The following is her story. Lightly edited, shared with permission.
For most of my life, I believed that being seen meant being evaluated.
I don’t remember exactly when I learned that, but I remember how it felt.
If someone looked at me for too long, my first thought was always,
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