This episode is about parenting, affirmations, the stories we tell ourselves, and how the messages we hear over and over become the water we’re swimming in.
Most of us have beliefs we never chose.
We just absorbed them from our parents, our jobs, our relationships, or whatever environment shaped us.
You see, I made my daughter cry the other day.
Not in some dramatic, horrible way.
But in a way that made me realize I had been accidentally teaching her something almost every day of her life.
We’re in the middle of weaning her from breastfeeding. She calls it “chichi,” and we’ve been telling her that she’s a big girl now. She has teeth. She can eat food. The chichi magic has to go back to the moon so another little baby can use it.
Pretty cute, honestly.
Except she started pushing back by telling us she’s not a big girl. She’s a little baby. No teeth. Needs milk.
And then it hit me.
For two and a half years, I’ve been picking her up, snuggling her, and calling her “Daddy’s little baby girl.”
Every day.
So here I am telling her she’s a big girl, while I’ve been affirming the opposite her entire life.
That wrecked me a little bit.
Maybe you’re not walking around saying you’re a baby with no teeth.
But you might be telling yourself you’ll always be anxious. Or broken. Or that good things never last. Or that healing works for other people, but not for you.
And until you notice the story, you can’t change it.
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