Fear. It’s a word we hear frequently in the media, daily conversations, and literature. Heck, it’s such a common word that the English language literally has its own suffix for it, -phobia. If you have ever spent any amount of time online looking for motivational quotes or listening to motivational speakers, they will all at…

It’s not uncommon to grow up in an environment that has fundamentally built societal expectations into it. Simple societal norms and biases are common values that we see in different parts of the world, but they are just a small example of specific expectations. Expectations can be quite intimate, deriving from family dynamics, religious beliefs,…