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Why We Protect Systems That Harm Us
You've spent years holding something together. The system, the relationship, the family, the job. You keep showing up. You keep performing. You keep doing the invisible work. And somewhere along the way, you stopped asking if it deserves your energy.This episode explores something most people never talk about: why we become the protectors of the very systems that harm us. It's not weakness. It's not foolishness. It's the result of conditioning so deep that you've internalized it as responsibility, maturity, and love.From your earliest years, you learned specific messages:• Don't rock the…
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