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How 'bout you? In what ways do you flee? Come on...we all do it! Over-working? Over-playing? Over-eating? Over-compensating? Over-joking? Over-reacting? Over-explaining? Hey, wait...am I over-expaining myself again? Yikes!

Many times when we flee, we don't even know we're on the run! Heck, not trusting is one way we avoid life. When I don't trust, I don't have to engage on an intimate level. Not telling the truth is another common avoidance. Blaming is almost a national pasttime that serves us well as we keep the focus off ourselves and the part of us we don't want to face!

Here's the astonishing truth about the things I avoid and why I avoid them...

Life is not a complicated ordeal. As complex as we try and make it, life is a process of me "on the run". Some of us more than others. What am I on the run from? Myself.


Why else would you become irritated at the slander that you're inadequate in some way. Now let's think about this like never before. You might be thinking, "well why wouldn't I get irritated at someone making a demeaning comment about me?

My question to you is, "why would you"? Unless you believe that on some level, the comment is true?

It's the element of truth in the statement that I want to push away or avoid. And that's why I'll get real creative, from dismissing to invalidating to retaliating & lashing out to appeasing so as to keep it hush. I simply do not want to hear about that side of myself I fear is ugly, unlovable and not good enough. I don't like being ugly and unlovable. It feels...it feels....ugly & unlovable! Ick!

How do you flee? Do you lie to side-step confrontation? Do you Blame? Perhaps a little dawn-to-dusk golfing or over-parenting, all to avoid dealing with issues? Or how 'bout just not going full out? Settling for? Minimizing your risk-taking? Compromising?

My friend, let's be sure of one thing right here. We're not about finding "fault" or weakness. We're about AWAKENING to specifically HOW you and I keep creating what we don't want, so we can create more of what we DO!

Remember, Lifting yourself OUT OF anything requires an understanding of how you've worked yourself INTO.