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Aggressively Defending Your Misery Means You Are Blocking Yourself From Peace!
Stop defending decisions with shitty outcomes if you no longer want them!
Many women who live lives they hate insist on defending these same lives, all while simultaneously claiming they want peace but everyone keeps getting in their way of achieving this peace. The thing is that peace is a decision. No one can give it to you and no one can take it away from you either. Also, how can you blame anyone from preventing you from being at peace when you keep inviting them into your life, heart, and space? Why keep indulging them and their shit?
A lot of women will never achieve peace of mind because they are addicted to the attention and sympathy from others for not having peace, plus they enjoy the ineffectiveness of living in chaos. And let’s face it: they’re drama queens. Peace is boring to them. That, or they care too much about what others think to remove the people, careers, and circumstances that don’t bring them peace. So the next best thing is to pretend as if you are helpless and vent to anyone who will listen.
And I get it. Peace can require a sacrifice that is not worth making to some women. It can require a sacrifice of the companionship you’ve always wanted, the reputation you fought so hard to build, abandoning your successful career to do something…
