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When Saying Yes Leaves You Numb: Desire, People-Pleasing, and Soul Discernment
You keep saying yes while something in you quietly goes numb. You are tired in a way that sleep cannot touch, and when someone asks what you actually want, you feel a kind of blankness, or panic, or anger that has nowhere to land. This reflection sits right in that exhausted space, for the person who has spent a long time making other people more comfortable than themselves and is no longer sure what desire even means. If you recognize yourself here, you are not being analy
Ben Shoup
Jan 289 min read
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