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Your Intentions Don’t Erase Their Experience · Moming and Me: The Podcast

Najah: Some of the worst damage can come from people with good intentions. Yeah, let's talk about it. See, when you know you have a good heart, it becomes real easy to hide behind it. You say things like, I meant well. I didn't mean to hurt you. That wasn't my intention. And okay, maybe it wasn't. But good intentions do not erase bad patterns. You can have a good heart and still communicate poorly. You could love someone and still be inconsistent. You could care about somebody and still lack the emotional maturity to handle them with care. You can mean absolutely no harm. And still cause a whole lot of it. And I think that growth is being able to admit that without turning yourself into a villain. Because accountability is not saying I'm a terrible person. It's being able to say I may be a good person. But the way that I was showing up was not good for them. And that matters. Because sometimes the problem is not your heart. If your habits And being a good person should never be the excuse you use to avoid becoming a better one.