7 False Beliefs We Have About Our Emotions - Emotional Growth Tips

It's easy to get caught up in false beliefs if it's the way we grew up or were told was true, either innocently or not. But it's important to expose these & find the ones that actually help us grow & become our best selves.

Show Notes:
Have you ever believed something SO DEEPLY to only find out that it wasn’t actually true? The pain & betrayal of discovering something you knew for so long isn’t actually correct can feel heartbreaking. And annoying. Let’s be honest, it can really suck. But even after all that, we can transition back and forth between understanding & denial because whatever the belief was that we had, it was so deeply ingrained in us that turning our backs on it now seems crazy or unreal.

But sometimes you gotta do it. You gotta take a step away and widen your perspective to see that it no longer works for you or was founded in manipulation & gaslighting or you just discover it isn’t true. But despite learning all this, it can STILL be incredibly tough to let go of something we know isn’t right, but was something that comforted us or something we used to define who we are & what we are all about.

Letting go of a belief can be really tough, but it’s really strong & brave. It’s also a sign of mental & emotional growth. You are realizing that what you believed before is something to move on from & there is something better.

I’m not gonna get into the idea of moving on from beliefs that actually are good & true for us, but we end up losing faith & true belief in those things. That will happen. And we will make our way back to those things. And that’s it. It’s a personal journey with lots of different experiences & reasons & sometimes excuses. And it also has nothing to do with what I’m going to share with you today.

Today, we are going to chat about false beliefs we have in regard to emotional growth. Meaning, the things we believe are true about our emotional health but actually aren’t. I am going to give you a list of false beliefs we have about our emotions & then help you understand why that is false. And you may disagree with me on some of these. Good. It means you are critically thinking about what is true for you & your life. I encourage you to do your own research & figure out what’s best for you. But this is the knowledge I have found to be true.

Here are 7 false beliefs we have about our emotions:

1. I need external validation to know I am doing my best. 
2. Boundaries are selfish. 
3. If I’m not positive all the time I won’t have a good life. 
4. How people behave toward me is how they feel about me. 
5. I don’t need to deal with people that think & believe differently than me. 
6. Being alone is a bad thing. 
7. It’s okay to treat others the way they treat me first. 

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