A listener asks how to get better at balancing the pressure to avoid being “too much” while also worrying about not being enough.
Also, a guided meditation on worthiness & rootedness.
QUESTION: “I saw your most recent instagram post about feeling simultaneously like i’m too much and at the same time like I’m not enough. it hit me like a freight train. I reread it twice.
I have felt this way for my whole life. the constant push and pull - don’t be too affectionate, but be warm enough that people want to keep you around. don’t let people know you need them, but make sure they come to need you. etc etc
here’s the thing - you seem to have overcome this. but I don’t know how to be in relationships and NOT do this. (I do the too much not enough thing in general in my life, but I notice it most and it hurts most in my relationships) I am afraid of losing people by being overbearing or needy or burdening them with my feelings, and I am also terrified of boring them or not giving them a reason to want to stick around. where this leaves me is in this strange intermediary state of paralysis.
what are some tangible steps I can take to start to overcome this? how do I get better at this? I don’t want to be stuck in this limbo forever.”
29:36 GUIDED MEDITATION
Poem: How Surely Gravity’s Law by Rainer Maria Rilke