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Scarcity is such an enormous and all-consuming ideology, that no matter how far I traveled on my journey, it always followed. From my suburban upbringing to corporate America to wellness advocacy, the hustle was there reminding me of my inadequacy and pushing me to do more. Being overworked, exhausted and busy was a badge of pride. And feeling chronically unsatisfied was my state of mind. It was, and still is, the all-pervasive backdrop of a culture that thrives off our striving and keeps us distracted along the way.
I was so busy proving myself, doubting myself, busying myself to death that I failed to see that there was no winning at this game; that it wasn’t me that was toxic but the system of scarcity that could never get enough - a system that continued to take more and more while giving less and less.
...I knew that I, we, deserved better.
Once we let go of scarcity, we can explore the world of dignity. Dignity cannot be quantified; it is not an amount of something that can be measured. Rather it is a way of being. Dignity flows from our own sense of wholeness and serves our collective wholeness. It is how we define what is enough in the context of the whole. And it is how we build a future that takes care of everyone.
We'll be exploring this next week at PERFECTIONISTS ANONYMOUS as we come together to unlearn scarcity and unhook ourselves from perfectionism.
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