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Choosing yourself: Danica Patrick

28 Apr 2023 · 1 min

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This is a short spoken segment from a YouTube interview/reflection ("Choosing yourself: Danica Patrick") in which the speaker describes processing family issues with both parents. The speaker concludes that patterns of choosing emotionally unavailable partners stemmed from abandoning herself; by "choosing herself" she stops repeating hurtful patterns. The clip focuses on parental influence, self-abandonment, and personal boundary-setting.

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Maybe what it comes down to, and we're really going there, is that I processed this family stuff with dad and then with mom, and I realized in the end that the stuff with mom was actually holding me back more than what appeared to be more obvious with my issues with my dad, which was he's just really hard on me and really tough and emotionally unavailable. And I just kept attracting those kinds of guys. And what I realized is that it's actually because I abandoned myself that I stay in the pattern. And when I choose myself, I don't choose those patterns anymore because they're hurtful.