It’s challenging to trust others when we can’t even trust ourselves. Many of our problems come from ideas that we’ve developed and/or adapted. We took those ideas, identified with them, and made them our stories (who we are). There were stories such as: you’re not __________ enough…smart, pretty, handsome, strong, flexible, quick, talented, creative, dependable, blah, blah, blah. These stories were someone else’s ideas of you, you decided to hold the idea close, then you claimed it was your reality. You thought selling yourself short would be a good idea because you wanted to be protected, so this adopted idea made sure you never felt foolish. In reality, it kept you from loving yourself ful
Since youth, most of us have been conditioned by society (connect the dots or not, it’s in there). Along the way, the little rebels let go of the warnings whereas others clung onto what they were warned about even if it didn’t feel like it made sense. Then, came our own experiences that we attached to from our parents, peers, and the world around us – magazines, ads, doctors, then internet findings and whatnot. What we learned from MANY of these experiences is not to trust, including ourselves. Aight, let's dive a little deeper into...WTF. Why is this a thing? Let’s take a look at babies: they tend to be little magnets; they’re attracted to certain people and situations and repelled by other
