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Your Old Survival Instincts May Be Hindering You
Pay attention to your patterns. The way you learned to survive may not be the way you want to continue to live. Heal and shift.
-Dr. Thema Bryant-Davis
In the last two months, I have really been reflecting on how the trauma and wounds that I have experienced (mostly as a child) has affected me my entire life thus far. Especially the significance of how I still let them continuously still affect me despite my best efforts to navigate this world as best as I can.
Listen, you cannot move on from your trauma and wounds if you do not sit in your mess and HEAL. Not only that, but you will continuously use the same efforts in how you respond to your ongoing life in a way that hinders you BECAUSE you have not worked through your shit. AKA, you are holding yourself back because you will not work through your emotions and problems.
Trust me; you think you are doing just fine and that you are thriving the best you can in this messy world, but, for some reason, you are in the loop of the same issues over and over and over again. AHHH!
I get that — I did the same thing for nearly 29 years. But guess what, until you understand why you’re reacting to your life the way you are and getting to the bottom of your problems, you’re barely scratching the surface and are definitely…
