You’re programmed by them to live under fear, to submit, to crumble without even knowing you are crumbling. That is where your fear of confrontation comes from, not because you’re weak, but because you have been trained to believe that opening your mouth is extremely dangerous. So you stammer, you struggle to speak your truth because every time you did in the past, you were criticized, questioned, punished, humiliated, or abused in some way. Your nervous system associates expression with danger. So what do you do? You stay silent. You stay small, and they keep winning. This goes on for years. It becomes your default setting.
But then, something in your soul can no longer take it. A day comes when you’re done with their traumatizing tactics, done with the cycle of fawning and appeasing, done with explaining yourself to people who were never interested in understanding you in the first place. A force inside you awakens, a force you had forgotten you even had. You decide to give it back to them, not with rage, not with insults, not even with dramatic speeches. You give it back with your energy, with your body, with your silent defiance.
Your shoulders widen, your chest opens, you face them directly, fully, and completely. You stand there with an airy calm and a confidence so rooted that it just rattles the very foundation of their false self. You lift your chin, you meet their eyes without flinching, you exude an aura of a warrior who is not interested in revenge but simply refuses to bow anymore. And you give them the look.
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