if you're not owning your life, someone else is
Rage is a destructive demand for significance when we believe that who we are is not enough to be important to those we love.The anger that spurs on the rage is a defence mechanism to protect ourselves from becoming invisible.We try, in our own little futile ways, to be enough without being able to express [...]
Sometimes that village is a family, sometimes it's a group, and sometimes it's just one person who represents everything that the village stands for.That child grows into the raging adult who destroys every wholesome thing, because they feel like no one deserves peace if they were denied love and acceptance.When you treat the vulnerable, or [...]
When we see people for what we need them to be, rather than who they are, we elevate their position in our lives through no fault of their own.When they fail to meet the expectations that we created because of that unrealistic perspective that we had of them, we feel betrayed and then blame them [...]