01/06/2025
We often beat ourselves up for procrastinating — calling ourselves lazy, unmotivated, or weak.
But procrastination is not a flaw.
🛑 It’s a protective part.
One that learned, somewhere along the way, that doing the thing might lead to failure, shame, rejection, or not being enough.
So instead, it pauses… avoids… distracts. Not to sabotage you — but to keep you safe.
💭 Maybe you grew up being criticised for not doing things “right.”
Maybe effort was never quite enough.
Maybe trying felt too vulnerable.
That part of you remembers — and now it steps in whenever you move toward something that matters.
✨ Healing isn’t about pushing harder.
It’s about pausing to listen:
🫶 What is this part protecting?
💬 What does it fear would happen if you followed through?
💗 What does it need instead?
When we meet procrastination with compassion and curiosity — not shame — it starts to shift.
And we learn that what looks like resistance… is really protection.
