Breaking free from the belief sent no longer serve you. From the moment we entered this world,

we were absorbing beliefs about ourselves, about others, about what we could expect from life.

But what happens when the people shaping those beliefs were unpredictable, critical, or emotionally unsafe?

For many of us, growing up in dysfunctional families meant learning to expect the worst.

We weren't taught to believe in ourselves.

We were taught to brace for impact. It wasn't just the words our caregivers spoke. It was the way their anger came out of nowhere, turning everyday moments into landmines. We learned that our safety depended on staying small, staying quiet, staying agreeable. Maybe we saw a sibling bear the brunt of

the rage and vowed never to step out of line. Maybe we became so accustomed to being blamed that

we internalized it, believing that if something went wrong, it must be our fault. These experiences

didn't just shake our confidence in

others. They planted deep limiting beliefs about ourselves, that we weren't good enough, that we

had to be perfect to be loved, that criticism wasn't just feedback, it was proof of our failure.

But beliefs are not facts. They are stories we were given before we had the

power to recognize we had the power to choose our own. Healing is about learning to rewrite those

stories to recognize that another person's anger is not a reflection of our worth, that criticism is not

proof of our inadequacy, that we are allowed to take up space to have a voice to trust ourselves instead

of fear the worst today we get to tell our inner child you deserved kindness back then

and you still do now what's one limiting belief you carry that no longer serves you man that

line just hit me when i was reading it for growing up meant learning to expect the worst.

So the belief that I'm still working on is this belief that I can't take care of myself.

And, you know, it was really interesting.

Yesterday I went out on a walk to visit my, I have a new, I had this gator that I was

seen every day, but he's gone.

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