# @drwaheedarian on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DXNEa2QDaMA
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/64049915-drwaheedarian-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-04-16T19:26:43.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Dr Waheed Arian (@drwaheedarian) — https://gondola.cc/drwaheedarian

## Caption

In case you haven’t heard it today, you have permission to be a work in progress.

If I could give you one piece of advice, it would be this. You are allowed to be a work in progress.

When I was studying medicine at Cambridge, I was studying English at the same time. Some days, my “win” was finishing a paragraph and understanding half of it. Other days, it was simply turning up to the lecture and listening.

I could have told myself I was failing because I did not understand everything. Instead, I chose to focus on what I could do that day. One paragraph. One idea. One small step. 

That mindset carried me through some of the hardest years of my life.

You do not need the perfect version of yourself to start. You just need the version of you that is here today, willing to take one step forward.

You are allowed to be unfinished and still worthy of love, opportunity, and rest.

#workinprogress #growthmindset #healing #traumainformedcare #mentalhealth

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traumainformedcare, growthmindset, workinprogress, mentalhealth, healing

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