Something I'm working through in my healing from a toxic family.
For most of my life I carried other people's expectations like they were rules. Their opinions of me felt like facts. Their reactions felt like instructions. I shaped myself around all of it without ever asking if any of it was mine to carry.
What I'm noticing lately is how much lighter my days feel when I put down one expectation at a time. Not all of them at once. Just one. The latest one I let go of — needing to explain myself before anyone asked.
What's one thing you're working on releasing right now?
— Melissa