People Pleaser 🤐 ❌ Sovereign 👑 ✅ Letting go of people pleasing has meant getting comfortable in discomfort, as I continue to evolve and expand! Ew! 😉 The work I’ve done over the past few years 🧗‍♂️ more concentrated in the last six months 🚶🏼‍♀️, and NEXT LEVEL in the last few weeks 🛗 has allowed me to shift out of people pleasing and covert codependence to sovereignty. Yay! What do I mean when I use this language? PEOPLE PLEASING: Seeking external input, confirmation, validation and guidance; while avoiding saying what's really there and not asking for needs and wants to be met. SOVEREIGNTY: Seeking internal knowing, being with self, loving self, validating and affirming self; speaking personal truth and allowing needs and wants to be requested. Perception is Projection! Which is why holding true to ME, my authenticity, is vital! In the past, I allowed perceived ‘high sensitivity’ and ‘empathy’ to mean I ‘had to’ take on another’s experience. 😕 What was that, really? Simply, colluding with them to stay small, enabling them to avoid doing their own experiencing, deep inner work and growth. I was deeply covertly codependent, and I didn’t even know! I'm a new way now. Owning my truth. Speaking my truth. Taking FULL responsibility for my ways of being. That’s love, isn't it? 🥰🔥 In episode: @createthelove @terricole Mark Groves and Terri Cole: "Crushing Codependency"