Dr. Aziz explains how childhood programming from your parents runs like operating system software in your adult brain. He suggests inserting a moment of awareness to interrupt the automatic script, then making a core decision to be on your own side and realign your internal system with your own values instead.
you have been running the operating system inside of you long after you've been in your parents' house, long after they've been the primary determiner of how you should live. It's very common for a 3-year-old to be— how they should live is determined by their parents. Little less common for like a 35-year-old. But internally, We're carrying the same operating system. And so we want to— part of our work together here is to like get a wedge in there and say, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, nope, nope, nope, nope. And so a core decision you can make that will stabilize your sense of self-worth is I am going to be on my own side.
