The subjects of her portraits are almost always in a state of transition, at some uneasy stage in the process of self-discovery and self-realization.

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Living alone allows people to pursue individual freedom, exert personal control and go through self-realization, but these people have fewer children.

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The new musical, a bubbly exploration of self-realization, friendship and evolution, ran during March and April last year at the Vineyard Theatre and the team hopes to further develop and license it.

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We read books about self-realization, we visit seminars, we think about how to develop our full potential and while everything we hear might make sense to us, real change can only happen through direct experience and the most immediate experience is a big, long dip into the magic world of our feelings and emotions.

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