Don't let it in...

    I’m having to find new ways to keep my spirits up. The people around me always seem to make me feel like i’m competently fucking stupid and incompetent 

 

    How do they do that you ask?! Well, here’s just a FEW ways:

 

• Always questioning the things I say even though I’ve never given them reasons to question me.

1. *start a riot*

• Treating me like a child just because I haven’t found my forever and started a family. (As if those were the qualifications into adulthood! 

1. *heavy eyeroll*

• Starting fights with me and saying things they know will piss me off just to get a rise out of me. 

1. *Come on, b*itches...the drama is unnecessary.*

• Googling things specifically just to prove that I’m wrong to embarrass me and then claiming, “they were just checking” 

1. *Mmmkay.* 

• Telling me that i’m the smartest person in the family and then treating me as if I don’t know what the fuck i’m doing. 

1. *Listen, i’ve gone this far without chopping my fingers off and I haven’t eaten paste since grade school, so I think I’m gonna be just fine.*

 

    Those are just SOME of the many ways people try to undercut me as an intelligent female who is learning how to be and stay empowered and stand up for herself.

 

    But here’s a fun new trick that I’ve learned from going to therapy:

 

    You don’t have to react to everything. When you stop reacting to the things that hurt you and irritate you the most, people generally will stop. This is because they aren’t getting the satisfaction of your anger, sadness, rage and hurt heart anymore. So they will move on to someone else. 

 

    *this is all true ^.... OR sometimes, they’ll find new ways to rip into you and make your life hell.

 

    My advice? Don’t give into it! And walk the hell away from the assholes that make you feel like you aren’t capable, competent warrior that you ARE!! 

 

    This my friends is the mental health mind game! An endless teeter-totter of healing yourself! 

 

XOXO