#externalvalidation

Your Healing Elevates the Relationship If you allow the blocks within you to remain as they are and the wounds you carry to fester, then it will become easy to fall into a cycle where you are always looking for external validation. And that same lack of self-awareness will make it easy to constantly project the roughness that you feel onto others, especially those closest to you. Self-love is the missing piece in many relationships. This is why some of the most beautiful relationships develop over time and are spurred into evolution when both people realize that they have a lot to heal within themselves. — Yung Pueblo, from the book Lighter #healing #wounds #externalValidation #selfAwareness #selfLove #yungPueblo #lighter https://www.instagram.com/p/CjS26t5uMJw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Darnet! So it looks like I don't qualify to apply for the National Endowment for the Arts (Creative Writing Fellowship) this year because I haven't been certified by enough publications (I think it's so weird that things work like that - you are only considered talented if certain other people say you are...) but I WILL NOT BE DETERRED!! I have a year to get published in "competitive literary publications" enough times for the government to risk backing me. But if that's what I have to do, then that is what I will do! I do not believe that art should be competitive or comparative, but I have been told by more than a few very smart and very talented people, that "I am one of the best in my generation." so it's time to put that shit to the test... #NeverGiveUp #NeverSurrender #ShowUpAndShowOut #StartTheClock #ShootAboveYourStation #FailAndFailFantastically #ExternalValidation Success is not a destination, but an ever evolving trust in yourself. #BetOnBlack

Influence can feel powerful while eroding inner reference points. What happens when external reaction becomes the compass? https://dualisticunity.com/why-being-a-social-influencer-can-feel-so-unsettling/

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Love what this picture represents. Social media has caused us to place our worth in the external validation that we receive from our likes and followers.