self trust
by rob hardy · updated 8d ago
self trust
by rob hardy · updated 8d ago
We put such pressure on ourselves to know exactly who we are and what we want in every moment; it’s okay for some things to be fuzzy. People who identify with having “so many issues” are often just people who don’t have immediate or perfect closure on the ever-evolving experience of being human.
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I believe that our creativity grows like sidewalk weeds out of the cracks between our pathologies—not from the pathologies themselves. But so many people think it’s the other way around. For this reason, you will often meet artists who deliberately cling to their suffering, their addictions, their fears, their demons. They worry that if they ever l
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We all have very good reasons not to trust ourselves. We’ve all betrayed ourselves badly, repeatedly, shamefully, and knowingly. Show me someone who hasn’t abandoned themselves, and I will show you a child. As we grow into adults, our world opens and we make mistakes. Ignoring your own needs and deserting yourself is a universal mistake.
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Trust is a matter of reciprocal relationships, not of prediction, risk, and reliance.
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Self-trust is the most basic and most often neglected form of trust. Distrust is often a projection of missing self-trust.
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Once people do not trust themselves, they are subject to easy manipulation.
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