This episode is about making self-serving decisions. I coach today’s caller, Michelle, through a decision about her long-term relationship. As you can hear in the call, Michelle intuitively knows what she should do, but she needs to be empowered so she can take action.

People feel most confident to make a decision or choice when they feel empowered. We feel most empowered when we arrive at our own answers. During the session, I reflected back to Michelle, and I asked her a lot of questions so she could get to her own answers.

Michelle was invested in saving her husband, but was it more about him or her? Her intentions were pure, but she was outsourcing her self-worth by trying to save him. There was a limiting belief that if she saves or heals him it gives her value.

It’s important to unhook yourself from the role of caretaker or savior. Go back and listen to my after-the-call breakdown of Episode #97 with Trinette for my explanation of what codependency is.

All of us struggle, at one point, with a breakup, a challenging relationship, or lack of a relationship. Our struggles are often a catalyst to dive into personal growth work. We all want love and we all desire healthy, fulfilling relationships.

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Consider/Ask Yourself:

• Are you still hanging on to an ex, either emotionally or physically, even though you know it’s unhealthy to still be engaged?
• Do you love taking care of others? Is part of your identity to help others or save others?
• When it comes to self-love, are you good at taking outward actions, but maybe not so good at the internal compassion?
• Are you more concerned about someone else’s feelings than your own?

Michelle’s Question:

Michelle wants to know if she should stay in her current long-term relationship.

Michelle’s Key Insights and Ahas:

• She grew up in an environment of physical and verbal abuse.
• Her husband is verbally abusive to her and her children.
• She doesn’t focus on herself.
• Her 15-year-old daughter wants her to get a divorce.
• She’s afraid to make the wrong decision.
• She recognizes she needs to change her life and to give her kids a different environment.
• She’s known what to do but needed validation to move forward.

How to Get Over It and On With It:

• She needs to make a decision to break patterns and to change things.
• She needs to start documenting abuse.
• She needs to stop beating herself up and practice self-love and self-care.
• She needs to believe in herself and give herself positive encouragement.

Assignments:

• Check out my “Get Over a Breakup and On” with Love course.
• Make a list of your healthy agreements in relationships.
• Make a list of all the things you are good at doing for other people, and then do them for yourself.

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