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I Thought Achievement Made Me Worthy | Veera Bhajan

Podcast: Corie Sheppard Podcast · Corie Sheppard

Opublikowano: 2026-08-17

Send us Fan Mail Born without arms, Veera Bhajan learned from childhood how quickly the world can define someone by what it believes they lack. But behind her remarkable academic achievements and successful legal career was a much deeper struggle involving survival, shame, depression and the pressure to continually prove her worth. In this deeply personal conversation, Veera explains how achievement became connected to acceptance—and why she eventually realised that much of her life had become performative. She takes us inside her childhood in Trinidad and Tobago, being rejected from preschool, learning to...