Empowerment | Self-Acceptance | Parenting | Growth
Can I be honest? I still carry a lot of shame and blame… for things that I know aren’t even my fault. And I’m not even talking about deep past stuff. I’m talking about if someone’s in a bad mood, I still feel like it’s my job to fix it—that I failed them in some way.
It’s wild how childhood stuff shows up in adulthood. We can be so hard on ourselves.
But what if we’re actually doing our best?
You ever seen one of those videos where a person is relearning how to walk and they take their first steps? That step is what it feels like for me each time I accomplish something while dealing with ADHD and executive dysfunction.
I was stretching before bed and started thinking about what I would tell my former self, if I had the opportunity. What warnings I would’ve given her to protect her from hurt, from being used, and from the embarrassment that came with pouring my all into people who were not good for me.
In this post I share about some challenges I deal with, that maybe you or someone you know can relate to. At the end, I will offer a tool that I created to help myself and people like me to work through those challenges and have more successful days. Worth reading. Proud of myself. AfterContinue reading “When Progress is Hard”
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