So Full Of Hot Air

When you hold it in, and hold it in, and hold it in, and hold it in! You KNOW you’re going to pop, just like a balloon that everyone else’s hot air has been filling. Because people have A LOT of hot air to share!

Self Expression may sometimes feel like it will kill you, yet it will not. In the beginning, it may singe the eyebrows off the first face unlucky enough to be on the receiving end. Start off by not putting yourself in that situation anymore. You deserve so much more. Just know that there is a learning curve though. Expressing your Truth comes in bits and pieces, often incomplete. Maybe you were successful saying one thing and thought that that would address the other thing as well without you having to speak it. But it didn’t. People often need it spelled out exactly as it is, so learning gentleness in your approach will happen when you focus on it, just give it time. Giving Clarity to ALL the things…understanding that addressing one thing DOES NOT mean that the other things will magically stop is essential to Self Growth. You deserve Boundaries. You deserve Respect.  You deserve to NOT explode in ways that don’t help you.

~Janice M. Burke

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