They kept you alive.
The strategies you developed to survive —
the people-pleasing, the control, the avoidance, the numbing —
they served a purpose.
They got you through.
But what got you through
may be keeping you stuck.
Survival tools become liabilities
when the danger has passed and you're still using them.
This week, identify one coping mechanism that has expired.
One strategy that helped you survive
but is now holding you back.
You don't need to shame yourself for having used it.
You needed it then.
But you don't need it now.
And letting it go is not losing a crutch.
It's making room for a new way to live.