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Is Your Own Victim Mentality Victimizing You?

And Why You Must Fix It Today

Kristin van Tilburg
8 min readOct 2, 2018

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Have you been victimized by some horrible and/or tragic experience?

If so, I’m sorry to hear that. But would it surprise you to know that most people been victimized at some point in their lives?

Everyone has experiences that are unwanted.

Something happens. Perhaps it is annoying. Perhaps it is frustrating. Perhaps it was unexpected.

Perhaps it was something that you are sure you did not deserve.

Perhaps it was a loss of some kind. Maybe this circumstance was something irreversible, or even tragic.

I know, these life experiences are extremely difficult.

My beloved had a heart attack one night while we were watching television, and he passed away before the emergency team could get there. It was horrible. It was devastating. I thought I would never get over it.

But the thing that we all have to face, no matter what has happened, is that yesterday is over. What’s done is done.

The question remains, though, how are you going to respond to this experience?

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Kristin van Tilburg
The Post-Grad Survival Guide

Writer for Thought Catalog and Publishous. ****** Guiding savvy Entrepreneurs from good to great in their businesses with the CSM process.