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What are you Projecting?

Do you present yourself as something that you are not? Let’s be honest… to some extent, we all do. We try so hard to hide our "imperfections" and show only those qualities that we think others want to see. For years I presented myself as a strong, confident, fun and sensuous woman to everyone I met. I may have fooled some of the people, but the truth is I was running a con.  I was not the person I wanted everyone else to see, and it was a very hard standard to hold myself to. I heard about this con game I was playing. But I just could not bring myself to expose my dark secrets to anyone, not even myself. I struggled to even admit this was going on within me. I frequently had harsh thoughts in my mind for not being the person I projected. (This was a root cause of my anger, although I didn’t realize it at the time.) Ultimately, I was only conning myself. We have all be conned into thinking that we can’t show our imperfections or disclose our weaknesses; that...