Dear MichellieBellie:

“I’m a freak/weirdo/crazy”- who introduced this thought to you?

No doubt in my mind most people you meet don’t think these things about you simply because they are not thinking about you. Some think to themselves: what is MichellieBellie thinking about me? Is she thinking that I am a freak?

When someone important to us communicates to us at an early age certain things about ourselves, we keep hearing his or her voice, imagining other people are saying those things, to themselves. We believe we can read their minds and hear their thoughts. But it is our thoughts we are hearing.

Therefore I ask: who was or is the important person in your life who told you those things, not necessarily in these words, maybe not in words at all?

anita