10/03/2024
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Toxic relationships have a way of separating us from our power and worth. This can happen to us in adulthood or during our childhood (and/or both).
Later, folks might call us codependent or people-pleasers, because that’s often what we look like…
But that’s NOT what’s going on underneath the surface.
We may have gotten out of the toxic or difficult relationship (partner, family, workplace, etc)…
But the toxic relationship didn’t get out of us. 😖
And, sadly, this makes us vulnerable to experiencing more toxic relationships in the future.
(So even if we finally gather up the courage to get out of one bad relationship, we often walk right into another).
But there is another way.
A way that I’ve found can change this whole miserable dynamic for good.
I call that way “becoming boundaried.”
Because as we become boundaried, we learn how to honour ourselves just as we honour others.
That means no more self-abandonment and self-betrayal.
(We don’t have to do that anymore).
A gentle, powerful, and honouring energy lights up our way instead.
The light of our being.
We don’t have to betray ourselves in order to get crumbs of worth.
We have worth, already.
We don’t have to search for it. It’s right here.
And there is a great dignity that comes with that, something no one can take away.
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