 Before you read this, try something with me. Close your eyes for a moment and take a deep breath. Place your hand on your heart and ask yourself: when someone last offered you genuine appreciation, did you let it in? Or did you push it away before it could really land?
I'm going to get personal. Receiving compliments and gifts makes me uncomfortable. When someone tells me I did a good job, my immediate response is to deflect: "Oh, it was really no big deal." When someone offers me a gift, I wish I had a present to give right back to them. It's easy to kid myself that this is humility. What I know now is that it's fear of the intimacy of being in deep connection with others. When Receiving Becomes Giving I was fourteen when my cousin tried to pay me for babysitting. I pushed the money away—"No, don't worry about it."
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Have you ever noticed how certain places make you feel more like yourself? How stepping into your favorite café suddenly makes creative ideas flow, or how a particular room in your house makes you feel more calm, light, and centered?
What's equally telling—and often more important to recognize—are the spaces that seem to pull you in older versions of yourself. The office where you automatically become more cautious. The family kitchen where you lose yourself in tending to everyone else's needs. The childhood bedroom where you feel fourteen again. We don't just occupy spaces—they occupy us. And sometimes, the next phase of our growth requires us to change our scenery. |
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