Empowerment | Self-Acceptance | Parenting | Growth
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.”
“People see all I’ve done and assume that I am struggling because I’m just not trying hard enough. And the reality is that I’m drowning, asking for help, and not receiving it. I’m waving from the center of the ocean and everyone’s on the shore waving back, not realizing I am out here fighting for my life.”
Me: I just need more peace. Inner Me: What if your power is in your war? Can’t say I was happy with that, but it made sense. As much as I hate all I go through, without it I couldn’t relate it tell stores that help people heal, find their own path, and recognize theirContinue reading “War & Peace”
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