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The Dark Side of a Successful Self Help ‘Guru’

We’re hypocrites-fuck your rainbows and sunshine!

Iva Ursano
3 min readJan 18, 2022
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You know, we personal development peeps are a strange lot, amirite? We go on and on about how you need to flick fear and embrace change and try new things and so much other positive life changing stuff. We want you to smarten up and be happy dammit!

Fuck fear, release your past, grab your dreams by the balls and show them who’s boss, don’t stop until you succeed.

Yup, on my Facebook Lives I go on and on about how happiness and success is in your hands and stop whining and complaining and for the love of God, get out of your comfort zone.

My Instagram reels are always daily motivational messages.

I blow sunshine up people’s asses and yell at them, in a tough love kinda way of course, to stop being miserable, it’s up to you to change your life and bla bla bla.

But…I’m a hypocrite. There, I said it.

My tank is empty

For two days now, I’ve been sitting and staring blankly at my keyboard, no motivation, no inspiration, not a drop of “go get ’em tiger”. My tank is dry.

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