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Stop Justifying Your Poisonous Beliefs – The Curse of Denial

How many times in your life has something happened that was so hard to believe, that it actually hurt to believe it? You know what I mean… it’s that truth you don’t want to hear. It’s like the people who can’t believe the holocaust happened because it was just so atrocious. Or, like the email I got from a woman who found out her husband is cheating on her. It’s very hard to accept a truth that hurts us, but if we don’t, we systematically destroy ourselves.

Denial is the topic for the day.  [Read more…]

Filed Under: anxiety, Behavior, Beliefs, Betrayal, Divorce, Dysfunction, enabling, Family, Infidelity, Marriage, Negative Emotions, Personal Boundaries Tagged With: avoidance, denial, poisonous beliefs

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