Are You Addicted To Your Story?

[Waking Times]: The stories that we attach to and define ourselves with, can be detrimental to our well-being and success.  Many people have gotten caught in a loop of drama, chaos, and suffering because they keep attaching to and retelling their story. If the story defines them as a victim, a failure, or a misfortunate person, then they will keep finding themselves in situations that affirms the identity the person keeps feeding life to with their story – their perceptions and beliefs about themselves.

People addicted to their story will tell you their story repeatedly… they will tell everyone their story because that story defines them, it makes them, it is their headline statement telling the world who they are. The story feeds a hungry part of them – typically insecurity. Many people addicted to their story believe it is easier to get attention through pity or conflict than from being present, vulnerable, intimate, or authentic.  These people haven’t believed in themselves or their ability to offer anything of value, so they allow their story to be who they are and stay hiding in a pattern of attracting attention through the tragedies and dramas of their past....<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...