The Major Aha Moment That Helped Me Stop Fixating on Fixing Myself
âThe real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.â ~Maya Angelou
My newest friend ended our three-month-long friendship on a July day when I’d just returned from a dreadful summer vacation. Her Dear Jane email read, âItâs not you, itâs me.â The lever had been pulled, I was dumped, and I thought, âHa!â Iâd spent the last three months trying to help her fix her problems. I knew she had more problems than me.
But then an anxious, obsessive thought loop began. What did it really mean? How could it not be about me?
This wasnât the first …