I didn’t know it, but for the majority of my life, I carried around the heavy burden of seething, fiery anger in my soul.

It isn’t you, it’s me.

It has always been me.

Here’s why.

You are a hologram projected into the world based on how you want people to see you. From our earliest childhood, we learn to adapt masks and personas that are designed to get us the response and attention from others we seek. We learn that hiding parts out of ourselves

What they did to you wasn’t about you at all. While it may seem like they said it or did it to hurt you, punish you or humiliate you — what if it had nothing to do with you? Our natural tendency is to make assumptions about another person’s actions,