Don’t Over-Dramatize Your Life

Stop being the star of your own soap opera.

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That may sound harsh, but I went through a great deal of my life — too much — acting as if every bad thing that happened to me was, or should be, critical to the whole world.

Worse, I made a couple of little drama queens out of my daughters, too. One grew out of it quickly, and one still says things like, “I’ll…