Hitting bottom is an inside job _ it's something that happens within our consciousness.
We might feel that we must demonstrate explicitly when we__e upset, or not upset. This perceived need may stem from our family of origin, from how we learned to be heard when a simple __o_ wasn__ enough. We may have learned to mask certain feelings, or portray feelings that weren__ ours. But as adults we each need to learn to state our personal truth without having to prove it or shout it.
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We might feel that we must demonstrate explicitly when we__e upset, or not upset. This perceived need may stem from our family of origin, from how we learned to be heard when a simple __o_ wasn__ enough. We may have learned to mask certain feelings, or portray feelings that weren__ ours. But as adults we each need to learn to state our personal truth without having to prove it or shout it.
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They call good evil and evil good. There are those who are so easily offended that they lose their ability to ever discern any truth, and this is often derived from a sort of frenzy by way of their own masked prejudice.
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