Don't Break The Mirror: When Your Authenticity Triggers Others

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Alright dear ones… In this episode, we get REAL.

Let’s start with the baseline premise that everyone who’s listening is doing The Work™️: practicing being honest with themselves and others, acknowledging our humanity and fallibility, and committing to being a kind human being who’s not intentionally trying to hurt people for no reason.

And yet, even when you do all the things, the inevitable will still happen.

You rub people off the wrong way.

Often when you least expected it.

You were simply living your life. Being you. Responding as you.

Then out of left field, something you said set them off.

Your perspective, your phrasing, your tone, something in the way you showed up activated them in ways that are unpleasant to everyone involved.

I must admit, I’m dissatisfied by the easier explanation of: “Oh, they’re just projecting onto you. Don’t worry about it.”

Because while that’s usually true, I know that this experience, like everything in life, is a fantastic opportunity for me to also look at my own stuff.

So, what’s going on here? Is there more than what meets the eye? How might we take this painful experience and tend to what is ours to process, while releasing that which aren’t?