Many of us people-please and hide who we really are because of protective parts formed in childhood, when survival meant getting approval from others. Those early fears of disapproval stay buried in us, creating a conflict between wanting to be seen and needing to stay safe.
you're really scared of what people are gonna think of you. And so maybe you shapeshift a little bit, maybe you people-please a little bit, you attune to the energy of the room to see if you're getting the vibe right, and you're doing all of that. Maybe you're annoyed with yourself about doing that. Maybe you just, you, you wanna be seen in your full authentic self, but you just can't do it. Really, there are parts of you active there. What's really happening is these parts are trying to protect you from the potential outcome of you showing up authentically and being seen. Seen and being disapproved of, because those parts of you, they might have been born when you were too young to remember. And those parts of you know, or think, that if you lose the approval or validation or acceptance or support of the people around you, you will not survive. So it's embedded in your survival from a very young age. And the things you experience, things that you hear, the information that you gather when you're super young, that gets rooted in your subconscious mind and becomes an integral part of you, and it makes up a lot of the fears that rule us today.
