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Why am I Walking with Dante?
Because some books don’t simply enter your life. They wait for you.
The Divine Comedy has always felt like a story I was meant to return to when the time was right.
And somehow, this became that time.
I’m rereading it with fresh eyes, shaped by everything I’ve lived and learned since I first encountered it.
I’m no longer reading Dante only as literature.
I’m walking beside him.
Through fear, grief, anger, betrayal, and the parts of ourselves we’d rather avoid. Searching for meaning and finding the courage to keep moving forward.
This series is my journey through Dante’s world and my own.
Perhaps we don’t find certain books.
Perhaps they find us.
Onward ✨️
#SelfDiscovery #psychology #narcissist #bondingoverabuse #covertnarcissist by @michellelaserra

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6 Ways a Covert Narcissist Controls a Friendship Group by @michellelaserra

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Walking with Dante
Inferno Canto 11
The Family Member
Financial Fraud, Lies & Smear Campaigns by @michellelaserra

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Just another day at work... 🌞 🐕 🐎 by @michellelaserra

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Walking With Dante
Inferno Canto 19
Dante enters the third trench of Malebolge, where corrupt religious leaders are buried upside down with flames burning against their feet.
These are the simoniacs, people who treated sacred office as something that could be bought, sold or exchanged for influence.
Dante’s anger is not directed at faith itself. It is directed at leaders who claim spiritual authority while using that authority to pursue money, status and political power.
Criticising corruption within an institution is not the same as attacking everything the institution represents.
Sometimes criticism comes from disloyalty.
Sometimes it comes from caring enough to remember what the institution was supposed to be.
The greatest betrayal of a mission
may come from those entrusted to protect it.
Onward. The journey continues 💛 ✨️
#WalkingWithDante #DantesInferno #Inferno #Canto19 #DivineComedy by @michellelaserra

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#funnyycositstrue 😆💸 by @michellelaserra

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Thank you for peaching with us at bellini_canella !
#canella #bellinicanella #italianfesta by @michellelaserra

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Discoteca Italiana ~ Arriverderci Roma Event at the Melbourne Museum.
When you go to Super Norma for a quick pasta vongole, only to realise the owners are DJing at the Event! 🇮🇹🎶🌶 by @michellelaserra

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Discoteca Italiana ~ Arriverderci Roma Event at the Melbourne Museum.
When you go to Super Norma for a quick pasta vongole, only to realise the owners are DJing at the Event! 🇮🇹🎶🌶 by @michellelaserra

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I clocked the Billie Jean beat in 0.002 seconds, then realised it was the Neapolitan version!
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Just saying 💛✨️🇮🇹 by @michellelaserra

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Walking with Dante
Your feelings are valid. Your interpretation isn't always accurate.

Feeling excluded doesn't necessarily mean someone deliberately excluded you.

Feeling overlooked doesn't always mean someone was inconsiderate.

And feeling hurt doesn't automatically mean someone has done something wrong.

We all carry insecurities, past experiences and expectations into our relationships. But emotional maturity requires us to recognise when we're reacting to what's actually happened and when we're reacting to the meaning we've attached to it.

Other people cannot be expected to anticipate needs we haven't communicated, meet expectations they never agreed to, or carry the emotional weight of experiences they didn't create.

This is especially important in new relationships, where familiarity, understanding and trust are still developing.

Of course, consideration matters. Communication matters. But so does extending others the same grace and understanding we expect for ourselves.

Self-awareness means being willing to ask:

Am I responding to their actions, or to my own expectations?

Have I considered their circumstances, or only how the situation made me feel?

Am I seeking understanding, or assigning blame?

Being hurt deserves compassion. But being hurt doesn't automatically make us right.

We can acknowledge someone's feelings without accepting responsibility for every assumption they've made.

And sometimes, emotional growth begins when we stop asking why others didn't meet our expectations and start examining whether those expectations were ever fair to begin with.
Onward 💛✨️ by @michellelaserra

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