When You’re the Villain in Your Own Story

Mia Hayes
5 min readJan 18, 2022

Learning to let go of the stories we tell about ourselves

Photo by Anete Lusina from Pexels

“You should be kinder to yourself.” Sarah sipped her tea and set it down. “You don’t you see yourself objectively.”

For the past hour, Sarah and I had dissected the rough draft of my new memoir. Even though Sarah knew some of the story from watching me live it, my stomach was knotted in anticipation of her…

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Mia Hayes

40-something trying to live several lifetimes at once. Stay-at-home author, mom, and wife.