you sabotage your growth every time you invite energy that doesn’t sit well with your soul to the table. the moment you have to sacrifice parts of your being or walk on eggshells to appease, it’s never worth it.
When we have a trauma response, we go into: fight (attack), flight (run away), freeze (play dead) fawn (appease or people please.)
This is our nervous system responding to threats. These responses help us mobilize or immobilize, to survive the threat.