disclaimer: there’s a part of you that will viscerally negate this. the part of you that has been socialized to believe that your safety depends on the approval or validation of others. maybe at one point this part of you truly kept you safe from experiencing harm, punishment or abuse (physical or emotional). maybe at one point you did, in fact, need to be understood and liked for your own safety. (know that you did nothing wrong for coming up with this adaptive survival strategy) this is the part of you that will struggle the most, at a visceral level, with being misunderstood or disliked—especially when you KNOW you have a good heart. but the necessary shift from child consciousness to adult consciousness will require that we make peace with the fact that not everyone will always “get” us or even like us. and even though our mind will agree to all of this, it will be our body that will take more convincing whenever we experience this particular trigger again. the good news is: whatever we learned can be unlearned. join us on Nov 16 & 17 for EMPOWERED EMPATHY, an online workshop that will teach you healthier ways of accessing safety in your body that WILL NOT depend on: 🙅🏻‍♂️people-pleasing 🙅🏻‍♂️over-giving (giving more than you have) 🙅🏻‍♂️over-explaining 🙅🏻‍♂️betraying your values for the sake of being a “good girl/boy” 🙅🏻‍♂️punishing yourself it’s easy to join us: just head to the link in bio to sign up & i’ll send you the reminders so you won’t miss it. and even if you can’t make it to the live calls, you’ll have the replays in your inbox immediately following the workshop 💯 for questions or more details, feel free to drop me a DM 📨 See you there! @jovaferreyra Empowerment Coach Founder of The Artidote