#innerchild

maybe we were meant to frolic and talk to animals and stare at the sky and feel the ground beneath our feet and watch the ocean as it crashes on the shore and trace shapes in the clouds and look at pretty flowers and make handmade gifts and tell silly jokes and smile and laugh and love

Endurance becomes toxic when you overstay the meeting that’s pressing your nerves, you agree to extend the lunch date to dinner with the guy you’re feeling icky around, you endure the phone call with your dad despite feeling agitated because you had afternoon plans to work on your business during that one free hour in your day. You endure. And it comes at a cost. One that is very expensive for your peace, your balance and your wellbeing. Enduring and people pleasing go hand in hand, and the reason you do this so easily is because you were conditioned to endure. Endure the abuse, endure the suffering, endure the discomfort. But the only difference here is you’re not a child anymore, you don’t need to suffer., and most likely in silence.  It’s become almost second nature to stay put in an uncomfortable situatuion. It’s what you’ve always known….But that doesn’t make it right. You don’t need to do anything you don’t want to. No one is holding a gun to your head (even if it feels like it). Often it’s a case of not even seeing the error in your ways,  you are simply asleep to your own behaviour. But this message is here to wake you up. To quit wasting your precious energy on people, situations, and phone calls that are actually LEECHING your life force. It’s time to stand up, walk away, hang up the phone. Become unavailable. No more endurance. No more freezing in the moments you need to be walking away. No more saying yes when you mean to say no. It ends here. But it begins with awareness. Become aware of where you endure, what situations. And practise. Practise for the next 7 days, how can I exit an uncomfortable situation? How can I remove myself and quit enduring. See it. And take action from that place, because believe me, if you are a people pleaser your life will be filled with opportunities to quit enduring. Filled with agreements that betray your soul, your purpose. Filled with staying silent at the expense of your own peace. So this is the challenge, can you practise breaking ties with this toxic behaviour? Can you quit enduring at the cost of your own peace?