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It’s inconvenient for the people who have benefited off of your supressed voice for you to speak your truth, which is why they’ll try to squash you with shame when you do. But the more you abandon your voice to keep the peace, the more you will lose yourself…
until one day there is barely any “real you” left. Then we call it depression.
Depression is actually the opposite of EXPRESSION. When we have abandoned our true self expression and voice for long enough eventually that rage we feel from this self abandonment turns inwards
The belief that you’re not acceptable just the way you are is exactly what draws people into your life who believe you’re not acceptable just as you are.
Life is a mirror of your inner world.
Where do you need to unshackle yourself?
If you don’t like yourself, it doesn’t matter where you go, you are right there.
To avoid being with yourself you need to take something to numb you so, you’ll use alcohol, drugs, food, shopping, sex, etc in order to take your mind away from yourself.
The solution is self love
Tbh for years I relied on alcohol to help me feel confident and “have more fun” socially, it lead me to some dark places.
So, when I tweet about this topic it’s not coming from a place of pride, but from a place of understanding, reflection and compassion 🙏🏼
Drinking to “take the edge off” is actually an indication that you’re living your life out of alignment internally, which is reflecting itself externally in your job, etc that is causing you to look to something to make you feel better
Use it as an invitation to inquire within!
Truisms about drinking that are in fact not truth:
1. Drinking is the only way I can take the edge off
2. Drinking is the only way to relieve my social anxiety
3. I need to drink in order to be more myself around other people
4. Everyone else drinks so it must be “cool”
Unconditional love is not a perpetual state of bliss or positive emotions (both with yourself and with others)
Unconditional love is acceptance of both the positive and negative states of a person
Unconditional love is the state of neutrality