
We all have a deep need to be seen, heard, felt, loved and understood. If we are met instead with contempt, criticism or judgment, our sense of belonging is rocked and we may start to recoil and feel threatened. Yet even when people use their words to label and limit us we do indeed still have a choice. We do not have to take on their words. We can choose to wear them or not. It is not other people that get to dictate our Truth, unless we let them. When we stay connected to who we know we are deep down, sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will never hurt us.
Duck’s Back
You do not have to wear their words
You’re not the names they called you
You aren’t the judgments that you heard
Don’t let their bullshit fool you
The box they try to put you in
The words they choose to frame you
Don’t take them on, don’t let them win
For who are ‘they’ to shame you?
You are how you so choose to be
No one dictates your story
Some people just refuse to see
(through jealousy) your glory
Just when you feel your truth’s been slurred
Rise up, for they’ve not met you
You are not someone else’s words
Fuck them, if they don’t get you
Tune into the Untaming Femininity podcast to hear Migena Gjerazi Coaching&Leadership and I talking to the delightful Sharon Wright on the topic of owning your voice and Free Expression : https://anchor.fm/untamingfemininity/episodes/Free-Expression-with-Sharon-Wright-elhncr
Really good for self esteem. 😉
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Thanks John 🙂
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you are welcome your Samanthaness, and Happy Halloween.
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and to you too!
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