Expectations

Are you trying to meet other people's expectations or do you live your life with confidence, purpose, and passion without seeking validation and approval from others? This is how I felt during my marriage.

"While meeting everybody’s expectations and pleasing others, I neglected my body and ignored important messages my heart and soul sent me. I wasn’t able to interpret these messages, and I dismissed my intuitions. I had a compulsion — a strong urge — to meet everybody’s expectations and prove myself worthy. Working in an office and earning money was one way to show my worthiness. I wanted to be accepted and valued. I wanted to be the perfect mother, so I did everything for my daughter. I wanted to be the perfect wife, so I did everything for my husband. I wanted to be the perfect housewife, so I did all the household labor even though I was exhausted."