Naming Your Demons
It is vital to name your demons. If you do not, then they are blindly driving you into decisions and patterns that reinforce your unhappiness. You are letting an invasive species, which was planted in your young and defenseless heart, grow out of control - just like a weed, coiling around both your heart and your head. It is not easy work and it requires time, space, and helping hands to work through it. After about an hour of thinking and writing it through, I can say that my worst demons are: learned insecurities which lead to external people-pleasing and internal criticism fears of a lack in safety / security learned shame which prevents me from connecting to lifestyles and resources which resonate with me and could truly help eager self-sacrifice & self-abuse leading to unhealthy relationships in personal & professional life The interesting thing here is that insecurity is quite literally at the root of ever single one of these nasty little dudes. Now, this isn...