Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Oxnard (The Nard), CA, USA.
Posts: 14,057
For me, it was a matter of self-worth. My childhood trauma took away many good feeling I used to have about myself as a person worthy of being loved. People appeared cruel and hateful towards me. I internalized that hurt and thought very little of myself.
With a recovery practice I feel wonderful about who I am. I learned to let-go of those things that drag me down and gravitate to people/places and things that lift me up. As a result the opinions of others that hate no longer effect me negatively.