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It's just helpful instead of just being like, I don't know. Shameful, helpful instead of shameful. Not shameful, envy, not shameful. Helpful, pointing us towards something that, a need that we need to meet in our own lives.
And P.S., that's just something we can teach people. That's just something we can teach children, that we can teach little girls, that we can actually... Okay, so we're going to wrap up this conversation with this. What I really feel like this constant abandonment of... our emotions. The result of it, the consequence of it is that we lose self-trust. Okay?
And P.S., that's just something we can teach people. That's just something we can teach children, that we can teach little girls, that we can actually... Okay, so we're going to wrap up this conversation with this. What I really feel like this constant abandonment of... our emotions. The result of it, the consequence of it is that we lose self-trust. Okay?
And P.S., that's just something we can teach people. That's just something we can teach children, that we can teach little girls, that we can actually... Okay, so we're going to wrap up this conversation with this. What I really feel like this constant abandonment of... our emotions. The result of it, the consequence of it is that we lose self-trust. Okay?
Because if we had a friend that came to us and every time she said, I'm in pain, we ran away. We grabbed the booze. We left. We said, I can't deal with this. And we ran. Or we buried it. We told her to bury it. We told her to numb it. We would not have any trust with that friend anymore, right? Because in her most vulnerable moment, we were constantly leaving.
Because if we had a friend that came to us and every time she said, I'm in pain, we ran away. We grabbed the booze. We left. We said, I can't deal with this. And we ran. Or we buried it. We told her to bury it. We told her to numb it. We would not have any trust with that friend anymore, right? Because in her most vulnerable moment, we were constantly leaving.
Because if we had a friend that came to us and every time she said, I'm in pain, we ran away. We grabbed the booze. We left. We said, I can't deal with this. And we ran. Or we buried it. We told her to bury it. We told her to numb it. We would not have any trust with that friend anymore, right? Because in her most vulnerable moment, we were constantly leaving.
And yet, in our own most vulnerable moments, we are always leaving ourselves. Every time that the vulnerable emotions like fear and envy and anger and heartbreak come to us, we bury it. We pretend it's not there. We deny it. We deflect it. We numb it out. Those are all forms of abandoning ourselves. And we learn over time that we are not people who will stay with us.
And yet, in our own most vulnerable moments, we are always leaving ourselves. Every time that the vulnerable emotions like fear and envy and anger and heartbreak come to us, we bury it. We pretend it's not there. We deny it. We deflect it. We numb it out. Those are all forms of abandoning ourselves. And we learn over time that we are not people who will stay with us.
And yet, in our own most vulnerable moments, we are always leaving ourselves. Every time that the vulnerable emotions like fear and envy and anger and heartbreak come to us, we bury it. We pretend it's not there. We deny it. We deflect it. We numb it out. Those are all forms of abandoning ourselves. And we learn over time that we are not people who will stay with us.
that we are alone when things are hard, right? And when we stay with ourselves, we earn our own trust and we become women who know that we will stay with ourselves. We don't even need to keep panicking about whether other people will abandon us because we know we will never abandon ourselves.
that we are alone when things are hard, right? And when we stay with ourselves, we earn our own trust and we become women who know that we will stay with ourselves. We don't even need to keep panicking about whether other people will abandon us because we know we will never abandon ourselves.
that we are alone when things are hard, right? And when we stay with ourselves, we earn our own trust and we become women who know that we will stay with ourselves. We don't even need to keep panicking about whether other people will abandon us because we know we will never abandon ourselves.
How do you do that? Okay, so... You mean if we're not going to just go the mental health crisis route?
How do you do that? Okay, so... You mean if we're not going to just go the mental health crisis route?
How do you do that? Okay, so... You mean if we're not going to just go the mental health crisis route?
So, all right. One of the things I think we can do to get even to the need is to learn to stop abandoning ourselves constantly, right? We have to figure out how do we stop abandoning ourselves constantly? Here's an idea. You know, sister, very well, my chart, my poster that I keep on my office wall that on one side has a list of what I call easy buttons.
So, all right. One of the things I think we can do to get even to the need is to learn to stop abandoning ourselves constantly, right? We have to figure out how do we stop abandoning ourselves constantly? Here's an idea. You know, sister, very well, my chart, my poster that I keep on my office wall that on one side has a list of what I call easy buttons.
So, all right. One of the things I think we can do to get even to the need is to learn to stop abandoning ourselves constantly, right? We have to figure out how do we stop abandoning ourselves constantly? Here's an idea. You know, sister, very well, my chart, my poster that I keep on my office wall that on one side has a list of what I call easy buttons.
And on the other half is a list of what I call reset buttons. Okay. So the easy buttons are things that I have historically done in my life to abandon myself. Okay. These are, you know, you remember those easy buttons from the Staples commercials where somebody would just hit this red button and you would just be transported out of our, your painful situation and be in this pain-free existence.