This Is Exactly What You Wanted
How your low self-worth leads to self-sabotage the moment you reach your desired outcomes.
For Those Who Are Uncertain
An attempt at understanding why we do what we do by exploring the parts of ourselves left unseen.
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You Resist Your Inner Multitudes Because You Fear Not Having a Simplified Identity
To accept and indulge in your multitudes as a person would have threatened the identities of those who conditioned you to simplify yourself into oblivion.
Your Need for Inspiration Is a Distraction
Instead of reckoning with the uncertainty of whether or not your goals will succeed in the ways you desire them to, you use the concept of inspiration as protection against potential failure.
You Don’t Choose What You Want; You Choose What You’re Willing to Let Go Of
Your unwillingness to let go of what’s preoccupying you in unproductive ways will hold you back and diminish the energy that could be used toward your aligned intentions.
Journaling Prompts: Self-Respect
A few questions to consider about the respect you show yourself and, by extension, the respect you expect others to show you.
Pivoting Feels Like Failure Because You’re Chasing the Perfection of Completion
A discussion on the necessity of pivoting and its difference from self-sabotage.
You Don’t Get What You Want Because You’ve Made Lack Your Identity
With an identity of lack, you walk through life with a gaping void that can never be filled because not having enough is often just as terrifying as having enough.
Do You Want Them, or Do You Want to Prove Yourself as the Kind of Person Who Could Have Them?
It’s easier to use their presence in relation to you as justification or proof that you’re actually better than you think you are, better than how you think others perceive you.
If You Don’t Choose Your Discomfort, Your Discomfort Will Be Chosen for You
By avoiding the necessary discomfort of this process, all of what you’re doing to avoid it becomes the discomfort itself.
You Resist It Because You’re Scared to Meet Yourself
Whatever it is you’re noticing yourself resist right now in your life, it’s probably due to the deep fear of truly knowing yourself, even though that might be exactly what you want.