I am UNBROKEN

Day 10 – UNBROKEN

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Today, let’s begin eliminating unnecessary emotional stress, while simultaneously cultivating self-compassion and resilience.

30 thoughts on “Day 10 – UNBROKEN”

  1. I’ve been told that I shouldn’t look at young men because they are too immature to have a serious relationship…which was something really disturbing for me since I managed to have a 3 year long relationship with a guy who was 18 at the time we got together, and he was more mature than guys over 30 years old. I believe these are social constructs that have developed in people’s minds over the time, as being universal truths but they are not necessarily true. I would love to stop feeling brought down emotionally when confronted with these kinds of ideologies from people around me. I would like to maintain my own truth and make decisions based on what I know to be true and working for me, as I am a unique individual, with my unique needs and wants. What works for me may not work for someone else, but that’s ok, that’s why we are human, to experience life from different points of view. If everyone would have had the same viewpoint on all subjects, we wouldn’t have the opportunity to gain knowledge, to think creatively, to be empathetic, to learn how to adjust to other people’s preferences and way of being, in order to learn acceptance and to live in harmony to each other.

  2. I’ve been told to treat someone that I dislike based on my principles as if they are my close friend so they don’t feel awkward around me and feel loved by everyone. My reasons are based on my core principals and I’ve been told that I’m in the wrong for doing that and I should cater to the majority and act how they want me to act so that everyone can be happy. However when I act a different way in a different scenario based on my principles and I’m in the majority, I’ve been told by the same people that I’m in the wrong and I need to cater and align with them because they are right and I’m wrong. I feel so often that I’m in the wrong whatever I do. It’s never enough.

  3. Through the fundamental conservative Protestant church I was raised in, I learned that people had to do certain things in order to be considered worthy. I was shamed for having negative feelings, making bad choices, being different than the “mold”I was supposed to fit into. Because of my inability to do so I have felt less than and unworthy of good things since adolescence. I am performance based and often have difficulty being vulnerable and giving of myself. Despite knowing that these are irrational thoughts, I struggle every single day. It’s the lens through which everything is filtered.

  5. My 16 yr old daughter told me, after I left my ex, that I was vain, self-absorbed and a terrible mother. The guilt of my actions leading up to my exit from a loveless 24 yr long marriage had become unbearable at times, and I had to get out to reconnect to whom I was before I became somebody’s wife and mother.

  6. I’ve been told I’m super sensitive. I’ve spent a lot of time trying not to be as sensitive. Giving myself inner motivational pep talks to just stop thinking, feeling. To be someone who doesn’t care. I can’t, I’ve tried.

  7. I’ve been told I’m to empathetic, too emotional, too energetic while at the same time also being told to “just snap out of it” when I’m depressed (I have clinical depression and anxiety that I take meds for…among many other coping strategies/tools!). Looking back at these experiences after reading this, I can’t help but wonder what it was deep down inside the humans saying these things that was really making them uncomfortable.

  8. That I must be a type of person or I am looked at as “horrible” because I didn’t do the best or right thing that I didn’t say excuse me when I walked by. I’m imperfect and I do my best everyday to be a better version than I was once was thru the lows and highs the best way I can. Even if others disapprove or etc…

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