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The Rejection Wound

You have been working your whole life to earn acceptance.

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The rejection wound organizes your life around proving your worth. It shows up in overachieving, perfectionism, performing, and the relentless sense that you are not quite enough. The wound is not evidence you are lacking — it is evidence you were not met in the way you deserved.

What this means

The rejection wound creates a belief that love is something to be earned rather than something you are inherently worthy of.

The need to perform, achieve, or be "enough" is not ambition — it's a wound looking for a solution.

You cannot achieve your way out of a wound. You can only feel it, name it, and slowly release the belief that drove it.

I wrote about this in

She Was Not Low Maintenance, She Was Trained

by Nikita Datar