You Are Enough: Healing The Need To Prove Yourself

We can’t name what we can’t see and if you are carrying any belief patterns of not being enough, needing to prove yourself or needing to behave in certain ways to gain love or approval then these patterns could be running your life without you even being aware of them.

When we are children we are in a world of giants. They are also the ones who hold safety and our well being in their hands. If we then find ourselves in precarious positions our brains get to work to create responses to the situations we may find ourselves in.

There will be an inner voice that accompanies you throughout your day. You may be aware of it or totally oblivious to it, but it exists. It is the narrator that is talking to you all day every day. If you take some time to listen to it, you will find that it reflects your beliefs, especially those born in childhood.

Over a lifetime we can become experts at knowing what others want of us, what our societies, cultures and religions require of us. And we offer ourselves up to those expectations regularly. We can end up creating our whole lives around this and in the process we lose sight of our own inner voice, our own needs and dreams.

We want to begin to embody the changes we wish to make and we can begin that in slow and steady ways. Starting your day with a few moments where you place your hand on your heart and ask what you need today. It could be to take things a little slower than usual, or you may need a spark of joy in the form of connection with nature.