3 steps to living yourself. For real this time …

Did you know that you were trained to reject love before you could even speak?

Most people were never taught what true love feels like.

In fact, many of us were conditioned for the opposite.

From birth to age four, the average child hears the word “no” between 30,000 and 40,000 times, but only a few thousand “yeses.”

That’s a ratio of roughly 10 ‘no’s’ for every single ‘yes.’

Every “No, don’t,” “Stop that,” or “You can’t” trains the developing brain to equate safety with restriction.

It builds a nervous system that anticipates rejection before an opportunity arises.

So when, as adults, we try to say yes to ourselves, yes to rest, yes to joy, yes to self-love, our body often panics.

We internalised those thousands of “no’s” as an identity: ...

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