Susie TaaffeChief of Staff, RAMMP · Chief of Staff & Strategic Operator | AI-First | RAMMP | Building What Doesn’t Exist Yet

The lies we tell ourselves are by far the WORST lies we tell anyone!

15 Jan 2026 · 2 min

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In this spoken monologue, the speaker reflects on the concept that the most damaging lies are the ones we tell ourselves. She describes how these self‑deceptions—stories that deny our inherent wholeness, perfection, and divinity—lead us to wear a metaphorical mask to conform to the expectations of parents, teachers, friends, and society at large. The speaker argues that the most pervasive self‑lie today concerns body image: marketing, magazines, and advertising constantly tell us our bodies are insufficient, creating a deep ego‑based insecurity. To remove the mask, she asserts we must first identify and confront these internal lies, especially those about our physical appearance.

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My beautiful Maureen, she always says the lies that we tell ourselves are the biggest lies. Like you lie to yourself more than you lie to anyone in the in this world. And those are the lies. The lies she means are everything that does not align with the fact that you are whole, perfect, beautiful, amazing, infinite divinity. Amazed, like wonderful. Any of those, any of those stories we've told ourselves, they're the lies. And then what we do is we put this mask on, the mask to be this well-behaved person, this human, to fit into a society, to uphold to our mother's beliefs, uphold to the teacher's beliefs, uphold to the friend's beliefs. Like, ah, so many beliefs that we're hiding behind this mask. But in order to peel off the mask, we need to first address the lies we're telling ourselves. And so that's why I do want to really dig into how we feel about our bodies and the way we look, because I think— I'm nearly 100% on this— that it is the biggest lie that there is going on in the ego right now. Like, It has been sustained by marketing companies and magazines, advertising, all of this, that our bodies are not good enough as they are. So everywhere we've grown up with, we see that they're not enough.