Hard Things Are Supposed to Be Hard

From Genny Rumancik:

Hard things are supposed to be hard.

Changing old patterns, ending relationships you’ve outgrown, raising children, creating from your core, letting go, stretching, growing, and stepping into the unknown.

The more worthwhile endeavors require you to show up vulnerably & honestly, and they leave space for something new to happen.

From the description:

All of my familiar self-protective parts are showing up to remind me of the vulnerability that is required when I step into new places. When I let myself be someone new in the world.

I feel the anxious thoughts creep in about what could go wrong, about how I might be judged, about what could happen, about how unsafe it is to expose myself.

And then I remember that this is a normal part of the growth process, especially when you’re stepping into something you’ve never done before. My wonderful, protective, survival-oriented little brain is trying to keep me safe by pulling me back into familiar territory.

Yep. Yeeeeeeppp. Yep yep yep. (via @tressiemcphd)

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