Stop Bailing On Yourself…The First Thing Women Learn is Self-Betrayal
We don’t call it that. We call it being “flexible.” We call it “not wanting to make a fuss." We call it “compromise,” “kindness,” or being “a team player.” We call it “Not rocking the boat. Keeping the peace.” But let’s be honest…The first lesson most women learn…long before we know how to balance a checkbook, read, or write or raise a family, is how to abandon ourselves gracefully… Women learn to be quitters without realizing it. I can hear you say to yourself, “I’m not a quitter… I’m an overcomer!” I never quit. But consider this… Women learn to quietly sabotage themselves and their desires, goals, and lives for what they have been told is, “the greater good”… and it a big fat F-ing lie. Instead, what we learn is self-betrayal, just like our mothers did before us. We learn how to quiet our hunger. How to swallow our “no.” How to say “it’s fine” when it isn’t. How to say, “I’ll do it” when we are already overloaded. How to shrink a dream so it fits inside someone else’s comfort zone. This is self-betrayal… it’s NOT self-care for anyone involved. And the betrayal doesn’t start big. It starts out in a subtle way. - The moment you say “yes” when your body is screaming “no.” - The time you dim your intelligence so you don’t outshine him. - The day you cancel your own plans to meet someone else’s needs… again. Women learn to betray ourselves in small doses…this includes our own personal wealth. And then one day we wake up… and realize we no longer recognize the woman in the mirror. You cannot sacrifice your way out of your problems, habits, patterns, or beliefs... It doesn’t work. Men are NEVER told to sacrifice their dreams or say “no” in order to accommodate someone else's comfort zone. This is how women have learned to bail on themselves when they get to their “Uncomfort Zone”. So, how does this self-sabotage happen? Years of unconscious self-betrayal. Here’s the truth no one tells you... You can’t become who you are meant to be while constantly bailing on yourself and negotiating your worth.