What’s your take on hiding?
We’ve all done it but hiding any part of us truly does not work in our favour.
Our job is to LIVE happy by making ourselves happy.
No little bit, no halfway, no kind of, no once in a while, no sometimes. Always. Period.
Sometimes we get caught in the sauce of life, like when we get stuck on how someone has treated us, or when we try super hard to meet the expectations of others so we don’t have to challenge or explain ourselves. When we get stuck in that sauce over putting our needs first, we hide from our own power and stifle our high vibrational happiness, contentedness and sense of peace.
Here are 2 ways we hide, often without even realizing what we’re doing.
When we let fear of anything keep us from expressing our true selves and what we need to feel happy.
When we let our past or current circumstances dictate how we think about ourselves to the extent that we truly believe that discomfort is a real part of us.
Neither one of those things is done on a conscious level. It’s not us determining what actually serves us and brings us feelings of goodness. It’s us responding to what we think is the safest choice.
Our job is to LIVE happy.
If you only take one thing from this post, know that the safest choice we can ever make is to live from your own heart space. It will never steer you wrong.
It’s not like you don’t know that already because when we hide, we feel all the constriction and the silencing and the anguish that comes from not being fully present with ourselves.
I can’t tell you how many women I’ve met who spend years feeling like shit. Many of them wait until they come to the end of an important relationship, wait until their dependent children have left the nest, or wait until they retire from their work commitments to make any changes for themselves.
The thinking is usually that without those commitments, we will become who we want to be. Realistically, nothing really changes because it’s not about partners, kids, jobs, or anything happening to us.
Our job is to LIVE happy.
It’s about us and how ready we are to look inside of ourselves and honour the goodness we find. It’s healing from the inside instead of thinking that the outside has to change for us to feel better.
True healing is writing our stories going forward into ones that honour us. It’s looking at our patterns of ignoring ourselves and beginning to create new ones that put us first without shutting out those we love and choose to support.
When we decide there’s truly more to life than feeling like we’ve haven’t done enough for ourselves, that’s when we begin to explore who we really want to be.
And what an incredibly beautiful unfolding of our heart and soul that is.
Our job is to LIVE happy.
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