#conditions-of-worth

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Relationships
fromSilicon Canals
4 days ago

I'm 66 and the hardest life lesson I ever learned wasn't that people change - it was that I spent forty years trying to earn love from people who were only ever going to give me conditional approval based on what I could do for them - Silicon Canals

Some relationships are transactional, where warmth is contingent on performance rather than genuine love.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 week ago

Psychology says the moment you stop trying to become your "best self" and start accepting your actual self is the moment most people describe as the turning point - not because they gave up but because they finally stopped performing for an audience that was never going to approve of them anyway - Silicon Canals

Stopping the pursuit of an ideal self can lead to profound personal transformation and authenticity.
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