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Personal Responsibility — How To Be Accountable For Your Actions & Exercise Self-Control Starting Today
Discover which areas of your life you need to take personal responsibility the most
“There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.”
― J.K. Rowling
Personal responsibility is knowing that the grass is greener where you water it.
Self-love is taking full emotional responsibility for yourself. That was where I had to begin my journey. Or else I would act out of my powerless six year old traumatized self, with no self-control.
A child doesn’t have the ability to regulate themselves unless his/her parents show them how to do it consistently and with patience. My mother is a narcissist. A narcissistic parent damages their child on multiple levels. Obviously, I wasn’t taught how to regulate my emotions in childhood, but, does it give me the liberty, as a grown woman, to continue the damage and pass it on to my child? Where’s the personal responsibility in that?
