Here’s How Lying To Yourself Keeps You Living Small

Feel Good Project day 72

Oh the lies.

LIES.

Yes, we have ALL believed them in some capacity throughout our lives.

Don’t know about you, but people who I catch repeatedly lying to me over time, I lose patience for. I have even ended some friendships altogether based on this bad behavior.

I will admit it-I have had my fair share of being the liar myself. Not proud of this, but it’s true.

Especially the ones of the ‘harmless’ and little white nature. I justify this to myself that it’s for others’ own good or to protect others from the often harsh truth that I can’t see them being able to stomach. Sometimes, it’s just about not wanting to look selfish for carving out more time for self care. Other times it’s out of guilt I feel. It’s the need to make up an excuse to give myself an out from over committing to the things I should just learn to politely decline in the first place.

Then there are the OTHER kinds of lies that I have discovered recently.

They are the lies we tell ourselves and have done so since as far back as we can remember.

They are hard to see as lies, because if you are anything like me, they make up what we think our reality is and has been.

Do any of these sound familiar?…

• I can’t do that as it’s already been done better.
• I’m not smart enough.
• I don’t have a degree.
• Nobody wants to cares to hear what I have to say.
• I am not a morning person.
• I am always late.
• It’s not possible.
• I am not creative.
• I am scared to death of public speaking.
• I am claustrophobic.
• It’s genetic.
• That’s just how it is.
• I can’t change it.
• Things never change.

And quite startling, those are just the beginning of the slew of lies I have told myself and have BELIEVED for most of my life.

Really excellent, hidden lies dressed up as ‘normal’ human thoughts.

I tell you, the journey to health through the doorway of changing my diet firstly has opened up many new doors that I never imagined existed. Cleaning up my diet was just the very beginning step to introduce me to my real life, the life that was just under the surface just waiting to be uncovered.

When I started to see the lies for just what they were, the power they had over me was forced to lose it’s grip as I surrounded myself with TRUTH instead.

I am still constantly recognizing the lies and bringing them to the light daily.

This journey takes GUTS and MOXIE I am realizing.

Although exhausting at times, the payoff of feeling freedom for the first time in my life is more than worth it.

FEEL GOOD MOMENT OF THE DAY: Spent the whole morning having a home spa day as I have been running around like a chicken with no head since the holidays. It was rainy and chilly so I hunkered down inside with a detox clay bath and facial with exfoliating mask. Pure heaven. Self care has become super important to me and I have let things slip a bit since December. I am reclaiming my territory though and putting intention back to this hugely crucial area of my life. It’s crazy how a two hour window set aside for ME today made all the difference. I should have had a cape and magical powers as I felt completely unstoppable!

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