“real power is silent. real power is hidden. real power was there all along. real power cannot be gained and never can be lost. it is not a commodity. it is who you are” - Elijah Pope S7E17
I used to think that holding your tongue was a sign of maturity, but I realized that a true sign of growth and maturity is being able to vocalize your feelings in an appropriate manner even if you are angry. Holding your tongue just fosters unexpressed feelings that lead to
I love how this is the opposite of Yes, And? At first, she was trying to be nice about the things people were saying about her.
But with Petal, she's finally telling y'all she hates you bitches
she basically addresses the comments she gets on the daily like, “personality disorder” and “we miss the old you”. she is so overly done of y’all TALKING SHIT about everything no matter the change.
According to psychology, the way you fight with your partner is often a reflection of how you learned to handle conflict as a child. If you shut down, you may have learned early on that your voice did not matter. If you explode, you may have learned that anger was the only way to be heard. If you apologize too quickly, you may have learned that peace was more important than your truth. These patterns are not weaknesses, they are survival strategies, they kept you safe when you were young, but they may be destroying your relationships now, and healing means unlearning the strategies that no longer serve you, learning to communicate not from fear, but from clarity, staying present when every instinct tells you to run or fight, that is the work, and it is the most important work you will ever do.
According to psychology, the way you fight with your partner is often a reflection of how you learned to handle conflict as a child. If you shut down, you may have learned early on that your voice did not matter. If you explode, you may have learned that anger was the only way to be heard. If you apologize too quickly, you may have learned that peace was more important than your truth. These patterns are not weaknesses, they are survival strategies, they kept you safe when you were young, but they may be destroying your relationships now, and healing means unlearning the strategies that no longer serve you, learning to communicate not from fear, but from clarity, staying present when every instinct tells you to run or fight, that is the work, and it is the most important work you will ever do.
my mom once told me “accountability will always feel like an attack when you are not ready to acknowledge how your behavior harms others” and that shit is real.
this parallel keeps haunting me, gabrielle had such an impact on lestat, he even used the same tactics to get someone's attention, the only difference is that gabrielle knew lestat loved her and used it against him, while lestat was just desperate for louis to take him back