How Yoga Gave Me the Courage to Stop People-Pleasing
âYoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self.â Â ~The Bhagavad Gita
Growing up, I couldnât have been further from my âself.â Early childhood experiences taught me to focus all of my energy externally. To put everyone around me first and to be insatiably attentive to their needs. This kind of thinking instills you with an incredibly low sense of self-worth, disconnects you from your own feelings and desires, and ultimately leaves your happiness pinned to other people.
When you have low self-worth, you mostly want to contract away from the world like a turtle. …