27/10/2021
Looking for affection from unavailable people is an act of self-harm.
It’s self-harming behavior because, deep down at your vulnerable core 🌀 (where you sometimes rather not look), you know you’re not going to receive their affection. Not in a healthy way at least. Not in a way that you truly deserve.
🌀 Deep down you know they can’t be there for you in the way you need them to.
🌀 Deep down you know that you’re going to get hurt (and will continue to hurt the more that you pursue them).
You see, sometimes we avoid or try to bypass the job of loving ourselves. We outsource it. We seek somebody else to do it for us.
But happiness & fulfillment has always been an inside job. And until you begin working on that (your happiness is YOUR responsibility and nobody else’s), you will continue to find unhealthy ways of coping.
The same way that alcohol and other drugs are unhealthy and unsustainable coping mechanisms, so is looking for love in unavailable people.
✨Your love is valid. Even if it’s unrequited. And so is your heartbreak. Even if it’s self-inflicted.
I'm holding a workshop on How to Heal a Broken Heart to support those who may be going through this heartbreaking scenario.
The link for enrollment just went live: creator.tagmango.com/jova
Remember, you are worthy of so much more than what you may be allowing yourself to settle for.
Snuggles,
Jovanny Ferreyra
Founder of The Artidote
Empowerment Coach
artwork by Miles Johnston