Do any of you have a constant nagging feeling that you're supposed to be accomplishing something, "making something of yourself", or that you're a failure if you're not doing something big and "important"? How does one shake that and find contentment?

Yes! I’m a mother of two healthy kids, a wife to a wonderful man, I volunteer in my oldest’s school function, take my youngest autistic child to all their therapies.. I had a career I loved but put it on pause when we moved across the country (it’s not easy to move in my field).. I should be happy, I have a great life! But I always feel like I’m failing. I’m not doing anything that “matters” or “contributes” to the world. I have no idea how to shake it. I keep thinking “oh, I’ll take on THIS responsibility and then I’ll feel fulfilled” and it doesn’t happen. I don’t know how to shake the hold my Nfather still has over me all these years after NC

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