So true that we start to question ourselves when others start defining us. Because that's the specific mechanism nobody names: the doubt didn't grow inside us. It was installed there by decades of corrections.
Subjective knowing is the antidote. But it also has to include recognising when the doubt is a memory of someone else's voice and not fresh data. Half the practice is just sorting whose signal is currently talking. Nice piece. 💚 🌿
So often the internal narration of my life is not voiced by me. Its perpetuates a guilt that makes rest less restful, tasks more mountainous and leaves my mood too low to do anything at all. Learning to trust my own values and my own needs in my own context is a hard thing, but it is so necessary.
So true that we start to question ourselves when others start defining us. Because that's the specific mechanism nobody names: the doubt didn't grow inside us. It was installed there by decades of corrections.
Subjective knowing is the antidote. But it also has to include recognising when the doubt is a memory of someone else's voice and not fresh data. Half the practice is just sorting whose signal is currently talking. Nice piece. 💚 🌿
Very well said.
So often the internal narration of my life is not voiced by me. Its perpetuates a guilt that makes rest less restful, tasks more mountainous and leaves my mood too low to do anything at all. Learning to trust my own values and my own needs in my own context is a hard thing, but it is so necessary.