Confessions of little turtle with love #6

Warm regards to you, dear little turtle, and to all who frequent this continuing thread and these forums!

A ''master manipulator''....

''A person who controls or influences others in a clever or unscrupulous way''

''This is why we must love, accept and trust ourselves, so that we can stand up to unscrupulous behaviour''

''When we doubt our feelings, and push them away, and then write a story like ''Oh they didn't treat me so bad, I must have done something to provoke it'' or you use toxic positivity and say ''I shouldn't have reacted so negatively'' we are giving in to the manipulation and abandoning ourselves.

It's ok to respond ''negatively'' there is nothing wrong with you when this happens.

Of course own your response in a situation, but make sure you communicate that the other person MUST own their behaviour, otherwise there can be no helpful resolution.

Nothing will change and you deserve to be seen, heard, respected and loved.

Meaning me, yes... Fuzzybear, little turtle, Rohag, Thirty shades and all on the AS IS BUS

''Confront a manipulator about what they did wrong, and watch them make it about you'' (source - unknown)

AS IS .....................and a friend to yourself

A TOAST TO The OLD YOU:

IF YOU FEEL INSPIRED to USE THE NEW YEAR TO HELP YOU RESET or CHANGE HABITS: GREAT.

- and yet: - THE OLD YOU HAS SURVIVED EVERY TERRIBLE DAY, EVERY HARD THING, EVERY AWFUL CIRCUMSTANCE, and EVERY HEARTBREAK YOU'VE EVER FELT. The OLD YOU IS A FIGHTER. AND THAT'S WORTH CELEBRATING.