Impact (Follow Up)
I’m currently reading a parenting book and it was in discovering this quote that I realized I could answer my previous post and so many questions that have plagued my brain for so long. It was especially in learning the harsh truth this past year that despite trying my best to make others in my life feel better, I can no longer put their needs above my own. I can literally commit self sabotage while trying to make others feel better which sounds quite ironic don’t you think?! It was in reading this quote that I realized most of what drives me to be giving was stemmed from lacking connection in my childhood. Here’s what Edward M. Hallowell says about a joyless adult, “The joyless adult who learned as a child that it was wrong to take pride in anything, is less flamboyant than the narcissistic, and so her plight may not be detected, even as a child. These people suffer in silence. They smile when they should, they say “thank you,” when praised, and they never put up a fuss or go off i
