Where do I end, and where does someone else begin? Many who struggle with people pleasing often struggle with understanding healthy boundaries. This is a struggle for co-dependents or people-pleasers because they were taught from a young age to take on the needs and cares of everyone around them at the expense of themselves. It’s not just denying oneself, it’s […]
“Well, at least you weren’t physically abused.” For decades, we’ve heard this sentence used to invalidate those who experienced forms of emotional, verbal, or other forms of psychological abuse. This sentence told victims of abuse, “You didn’t really have it that bad if you weren’t hit”. It invalidated true abuse victims’ experiences. Any form of abuse is abuse. While physical […]
Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it” -Matthew 16:24-26 NIV From a young age, I remember believing I needed to keep myself small. Fading […]