Wisely choose your battles

“When people are rude, offend/attack/hurt you, they have unhealed trauma, they are full of venom and that venom is pouring out.

The important thing is that you don’t allow them to poison you too.

Answer evil with good, don’t answer evil with evil.

If you get caught up in a conflict, if you offend/attack/hurt the other person, then you can know that you have already allowed another person to contaminate you.

Don’t let a man behaving in a toxic way ruin your day.

Do not allow a man full of venom to fill you with venom.

It can’t stop a man from spreading his venom, but you can keep that venom from getting inside you. Guard your heart!

No matter how good/generous/polite you are, in life you will have to deal with people who will treat you in a disrespectful/kindless way, who will hurt you.

And each time you will have a choice between filling yourself with venom, acting unbalanced, making a scandal, offending yourself or responding in a balanced way.

You have a choice between taking the bait or not.

Every time someone offends you, trips you up, attacks you, be aware: “Now I’m being baited. And it’s my choice if I bite it or not.”

Most people take the bait. And most of the time it’s the same bait day after day, year after year, but they keep biting.

Choose your battles wisely.

If you get caught up in any conflict, if you let yourself be challenged by anyone, consuming your energy with things and people that don’t matter, you won’t have energy for the battles that really matter.”

( ✍️ Joel Osteen )

Art : Maria Umiewska

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Author: GreatCosmicMothersUnited

I have joined with many parents affected with the surreal , yet accepted issue of child abuse via Pathogenic Parenting / Domestic abuse. As a survivor of Domestic Abuse, denial abounded that 3 sons were not affected. In my desire to be family to those who have found me lacking . As a survivor of psychiatric abuse, therapist who abused also and toxic prescribed medications took me to hell on earth with few moments of heaven. I will share my life, my experiences and my studies and research.. I will talk to small circles and I will council ; as targeted parents , grandparents , aunts , uncles etc. , are denied contact with a child for reasons that serve the abuser ...further abusing the child. I grasp the trauma and I have looked at the lost connection to a higher power.. I grasp when one is accustomed to privilege, equality can feel like discrimination.. Shame and affluence silences a lot of facts , truths that have been labeled "negative". It is about liberation of the soul from projections of a alienator , and abuser ..

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