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Daily Shift 16: The Roles You Learned to Play to Stay Safe


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In today's Daily Shift, we explore the roles many of us learned to play in order to feel emotionally safe.

When our environment didn't allow space for our feelings, we adapted. Some of us became the responsible one, the peacekeeper, the invisible one, the high achiever, or the rebel. These roles weren't personality traits — they were protection.

This short episode invites gentle awareness around the patterns you may still carry today, without blame or judgment. Noticing the role you slip into can create space for choice, flexibility, and emotional freedom.

In this episode, you'll reflect on:

  • The survival roles children often adopt

  • Why these roles develop in emotionally unsafe environments

  • How these patterns can continue into adulthood

  • How awareness helps create new choices

🎧 Daily Shift is a short-form series on the Celeste the Therapist podcast, created to help you shift the way you think and move through your day with more intention.

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