Stop Saying ‘YES’ When You Really Need To Say ‘Leave Me The Heck Alone!’

I know that the title is probably a bit too dramatic for most situations but if you fully realised how much time and energy you are wasting, maybe you would realise just how imperative it is to say it.

I must admit, even writing this is making me a little weepy as I consider how much time and energy I wasted saying ‘YES’, trying to belong, trying to be what ‘they’ wanted me to be, trying to be good and at the same time, trying to retain my own personality!!!!

Rebelling when I did not need to…

Submitting when I did not need to…

Being everything BUT ME!

And wondering why I felt so anxious and sad so much of the time.

I was denying myself

My inner child was weeping

And I could not hear as I tried to keep all the traditions that I did not understand…

Tried to be parent to siblings when I was not much more than a child myself

Tried to be support to parents when they should have been supporting me

And I kept getting it all wrong STILL!