Dr. Caron Leid 🇹🇹🇨🇦

Author | Counsellor | Alzheimer’s & Dementia Caregiver Education

[Dr. Caron Leid 🇹🇹🇨🇦 @utilitarian]

Happy people, don't attack you. It's almost physically impossible. They're not saying anything bad about you. They're not thinking anything bad. They are not acting on anything to hurt you. If somebody attacks you, it's for one reason only, they are not happy with themselves. It has nothing to do with you.

[Dr. Caron Leid 🇹🇹🇨🇦 @utilitarian]

Just a reminder, truth doesn't mind being questioned, but a lie doesn't like to be challenged.

[Dr. Caron Leid 🇹🇹🇨🇦 @utilitarian]

The feeling that you can't describe is because you're disconnected to your body. It is a trauma response. When we suppress our true feelings to survive, we slowly disconnect to our body. We can't decode its reactions. Once you start to reconnect to your body, you'll start to notice when your body feels uncomfortable in the moment itself. Keep going, keep healing, you got this!

[Dr. Caron Leid 🇹🇹🇨🇦 @utilitarian]

Your trauma is your testimony, not your identity. You are not your past.

[Dr. Caron Leid 🇹🇹🇨🇦 @utilitarian]

I don't argue with people. I take their behaviour as all the information I need and act accordingly.

[Dr. Caron Leid 🇹🇹🇨🇦 @utilitarian]

Today, we pause to reflect on the true meaning of courage.

[Dr. Caron Leid 🇹🇹🇨🇦 @utilitarian]

The ironic tragedy is that life has to be lived forward but only makes sense in reverse.

[Dr. Caron Leid 🇹🇹🇨🇦 @utilitarian]

If I do not heal how I feel about myself, life will continually show me how I am.

[Dr. Caron Leid 🇹🇹🇨🇦 @utilitarian]

Grab a plate and throw it on the ground.
-Okay, done.
Did it break?
-Yes
Now say sorry to it.
-Sorry.
Did it go back to the way it was before?
-No.
Now, do you understand?

[Dr. Caron Leid 🇹🇹🇨🇦 @utilitarian]

We can be cordial, but we can't be close. I am no longer pretending that we are, what we aren't. I am no longer going above and beyond to foster relationships that are one-sided. There's no hate or drama. Simply put, where there is misalignment, I am opting out.

[Dr. Caron Leid 🇹🇹🇨🇦 @utilitarian]

Maturity is staying calm in situations where someone may be talking falsely and saying false narratives about you to other people. Because in the end, you know that the truth is going to reveal itself. 9 times out of 10, the person who's talking about you is enjoying the attention they are getting from talking about you.

[Dr. Caron Leid 🇹🇹🇨🇦 @utilitarian]

Discernment is when you don't have to reach the end of a lesson to learn it.

[Dr. Caron Leid 🇹🇹🇨🇦 @utilitarian]

We can not convince people to value things that they already find to be worthless by providing more if it, whether that be your love, your time, or your energy.

[Dr. Caron Leid 🇹🇹🇨🇦 @utilitarian]

Remove yourself from places where you don't feel loved, respected, or valued. That's s how you level up your self-worth.

[Dr. Caron Leid 🇹🇹🇨🇦 @utilitarian]

When you understand that every opinion is a vision loaded with personal history, you will begin to understand that every judgment is a confession.

[Dr. Caron Leid 🇹🇹🇨🇦 @utilitarian]

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
Charles Darwin

[Dr. Caron Leid 🇹🇹🇨🇦 @utilitarian]

You don't have to drink the entire sea to know if it's salty.

[Dr. Caron Leid 🇹🇹🇨🇦 @utilitarian]

..and if you understood your value, you would be quicker to walk away from B.S. Accept the lesson and keep it moving...

[Dr. Caron Leid 🇹🇹🇨🇦 @utilitarian]

when we're in a situation where someone makes us uncomfortable and we choose to be polite instead of honest, all we're doing is holding onto all that discomfort for ourselves when the other person SHOULD be uncomfortable.

[Dr. Caron Leid 🇹🇹🇨🇦 @utilitarian]

I don't need your sorry to release myself from you. Closure comes from me,not from you.