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What Did Your Childhood Teach You About Life?
That I would be a people-pleasing, approval-seeking, validating needing asswipe.
The importance of getting your needs met in childhood is detrimental to having an adult life you love, not looking to escape. One where you don’t settle and pursue what you deserve.
A lot of times, I write what I feel and assume others feel the same. For some reason, I think I am a mind reader, which is another beautiful trait of mine, not
I know I write experiences people relate to, but it’s all relative.
I never dreamed at 48, I would be as lost as I am. Almost every adult decision I have made was based on what others think about me or if it would gain approval from others. It really is a miserable existence.
My recent trip to Colombia with my friend really got my wheels spinning. When I first got there, I got sick. My air condition went out the 2nd place we stayed, and my shower flooded. All of this while I felt like shit.
Then Sara Burdick got sick, but we still had a great time! I think, ask her!? HA
On my final day there, we finally sat down; we were on a constant run. Sara felt she had to show me as much as possible(being the tour…