This is so helpful Marshall. A 3 minute sanity boost! Thankyou!

This is fantastic. Approval is not love. People who love and care about us love us even when they dont agree with our choices and don't withdraw love when disapproval about some behaviour that has no affect on them in any real way shows up

Thank you Marshall for another timely and on point message! I am practicing everyday being conscious of what it means to love and approve of myself. Being able to stand up for oneself, one’s choices, and one’s own approval, at the risk of falling down, is very scary (at first). But I would rather make my own mistakes, and get back up again, than to be a puppet for someone else. Look forward to your next video!😊

My parents wanted me to survive = to have a good job, which they hadn't have at that time. So they pushed me a lot to study since I was 2-3 y.o. (early development and stuff like this), without realizing the dangers of this way. And it was very much transactional. When I was a good student, everyone was happy. But when I failed at something I was grilled for hours by all my family members. It left deep wounds. It is always very stressful for me to stand for myself. But I am doing it anyway and learning how to do it.