The defense mechanisms that are holding you back in life and love
Does everything good in your life seem to fall apart? Take down some of your defenses.
by: E.B. Johnson
What defense mechanisms do you use in your everyday life? Perhaps you use them to protect yourself from a relationship that’s heading downhill. Or you use them to eject yourself from a toxic work encounter. However your defense mechanisms manifest, they can get the best of us if we don’t take the initiative to manage and control them. That ancient ancestor brain is still at work within us, seeking to protect us. It’s up to us to mindfully bring it — and ourselves — into the modern age.
The defense mechanisms that are holding you back.
There are dozens of defense mechanisms we can employ to protect ourselves from everything, including bad relationships and disappointing work cultures. While some are as subtle as projection, some like denial are far more overt. In order to build happy lives, though, we can’t allow our defense mechanisms to sabotage us or slow us down. We have to take charge and understand how they impact us.
