Empowerment | Self-Acceptance | Parenting | Growth
When you’re drowning in an ocean, anything floating in that water looks like a potential life raft. You’ll grab onto it hoping and trusting it’s going to save you. It feels like a blessing, the answer to your problem.
Some “evil” people count on that. They seek out desperation because they know it impairs judgment. They know our need will cause us to see treasure in fool’s gold.
I have been fooled so many times like this. And I’d like to tell you a little bit about it.
A series of events led to me realizing that I have some inner child stuff to clear up. Between the emotions I’ve been navigating lately and some insecurities that were stirred up, I had some epiphanies that I believe may help you on your own self-love/self-acceptance/self-compassion journey. Listen to the podcast.
Day before yesterday I decided that I was gonna limit my time on social media because I didn’t have anything positive to say.
Life has just gotten too heavy—too many moving parts, needs, responsibilities, challenges, and carrying too much pain and too many losses—to not have it accidentally leak out into everything I do/say.
It hurt to hear someone say that I’ve been really negative lately… followed by the amount of time that they’ve noticed. It gut-punched me.
I feel embarrassed because….
“Most of the beliefs that we hold about who we are, how people treat us and how life works came from guesses we made in childhood. We watched people as they interacted with each other (and us), their body language, facial expressions, shifts in mood/energy, etc. and made decisions about the causes of each effect.
These meanings we defined in childhood are often the same rules we use as we navigate life as adults. Unless we’ve received new information that completely obliterates the old beliefs, we’ll keep those messages for life.”
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