Your inner circle provides the energy you unconsciously digest. You need to be selective about who you let in because they must see you — your quirks, your weaknesses, your strengths; they mustn’t judge you — even when they don’t understand, notice whether their knee-jerk reaction is to offer advice to fix you (even if they don’t have the capacity or experience); they must hold space for you — that they are with you in the easy and difficult moments, that they know that sometimes you just need them to hold space for you (even when you are down); they must have the patience and presence to choose the time and utterance to tell you the uncomfortable truths that you need to hear.
You are your environment. Your environment provides the air you breathe, the nutrition you absorb, the information you digest. Remember, crap in, crap out.
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