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The Depression & Self-Worth Pillar

Oubaitori
Never Compare

“You have your own season to bloom.”

The Concept

What Oubaitori means

Oubaitori names four flowering trees — cherry, plum, peach, and apricot — each blooming in its own season. No tree is late. No tree is weak. The teaching is quiet and specific: your timing is not a verdict. It’s simply yours.

In the work

How Oubaitori
shapes therapy

So much suffering is not the hard thing — it’s the comparison layered on top of it. In therapy, we use thought records and “should” audits to notice the measurements and gently set them down, so your life can be felt without being constantly ranked against someone else’s.

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story behind Oubaitori

The gentle antidote to comparison — cherry, plum, peach, and apricot, and why your timing is never wrong.

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June Pittman
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