Whatever You Avoid Owns You

Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore

Susie Moore

Society & Culture, Philosophy, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Life Coach, Motivational, Personal Development, Mental Health, Life Coaching, Self-help, Education

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🗓️ 5 April 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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"Whatever you avoid owns you." These five powerful words encapsulate the hidden trap many of us fall into daily. While avoidance feels like self-protection, it's actually a silent thief, stealing our growth, confidence, and possibility. Consider the difficult conversations you're putting off in your relationships or at work. That avoidance isn't keeping you safe—it's allowing resentment to build, misunderstandings to flourish, and connection to wither. Or perhaps you're avoiding risk and rej...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.
0:10.0	Okay, my friends, let's talk about avoidance.
0:15.7	Avoidance.
0:17.8	What if, whatever it is that you avoid in your life right now, what if you came to understand
0:24.0	that that thing that you avoid actually owns you?
0:29.5	It owns you.
0:31.2	Right?
0:31.4	Avoidance, I can feel like a protective kind of mechanism.
0:41.3	But what if it has the opposite effect?
0:47.1	What if we're avoiding something thinking, oh, you know, this is good, I'm being saved, I'm being spared, this is the right thing, but what if the effect is actually not what you think it is?
0:53.3	Think about it this way. Are you avoiding perhaps a difficult
0:57.1	conversation? Think about it, right? Maybe it's a tough discussion at work or in your marriage. There's
1:04.0	tension building up. There's resentment building up. There are misunderstandings that are happening.
1:09.4	Maybe even missed chances for growth or for intimacy and deeper connections.
1:17.6	Avoiding a difficult topic or conversation is potentially robbing you of a lot.
1:27.8	What about avoiding risk or avoiding rejection?
1:31.8	Oh, I love this topic.
1:33.0	If you're in self-coaching society, you know we love to talk about rejection.
1:37.6	Because if you're afraid of failing or if you're afraid of being laughed out or rejected
1:41.9	in any capacity, I mean, I don't even think rejection exists. But if you're afraid of being laughed at or rejected in any capacity. I mean, I don't even think rejection exists.
1:46.5	But if you're afraid of it and it stops you from going for it, maybe launching something
1:53.0	or stepping into a bigger playing field or even becoming visible in the media,
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