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'I'm fine.' 'No worries if not!' 'Just five minutes away.' We all have a rotating cast of socially acceptable fibs we deploy to keep the peace. This is a field guide to what we're really saying — and a case for picking one person with whom we retire the act entirely.
Everyone talks about the magic of gratitude journals in January, but nobody mentions the entries that feel like lies. Here's what happened when I stopped writing what I was supposed to be thankful for and started writing what was actually true.
That creeping heaviness before the workweek isn't a personality quirk to laugh off with a meme. It's a message from your nervous system, and it deserves a closer read.