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Do I Need To Be Fully Healed Before I Get Into A Relationship? — Transcript

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  1. 0:00Do you need to be fully healed before
  2. 0:02you get into a relationship? Well, the
  3. 0:04thing is two women can say this exact
  4. 0:07same sentence and they can come from two
  5. 0:10very different places. They both could
  6. 0:12say, "I'm not dating right now. I'm
  7. 0:14focusing on myself." And one of them is
  8. 0:17making a really healthy decision while
  9. 0:19the other one is actually hiding. Mostly
  10. 0:22she's hiding from herself. It's because
  11. 0:24sometimes when someone says, "I'm
  12. 0:26focusing on myself," it means I'm
  13. 0:28finally building a life I love and I'm
  14. 0:31not willing to interrupt it for someone
  15. 0:34who isn't right for me. And sometimes it
  16. 0:37means that I'm terrified of getting hurt
  17. 0:39again. So, I'm going to make sure that
  18. 0:41nobody even gets close enough to hurt
  19. 0:44me. And from the outside, both of these
  20. 0:47women can look exactly the same. They're
  21. 0:49both single. They're both working on
  22. 0:51themselves. They're both saying that
  23. 0:53they want to wait for the right person,
  24. 0:55but internally they're living completely
  25. 0:59different realities. And I think that
  26. 1:02figuring out which one you are might be
  27. 1:05much more important than figuring out
  28. 1:08whether you're healed enough to date.
  29. 1:11Because here's something that I
  30. 1:12genuinely wish someone had told me
  31. 1:14sooner. You do not have to become a
  32. 1:17perfectly healed woman before you're
  33. 1:20allowed to be loved. But you also
  34. 1:23shouldn't use a relationship to avoid
  35. 1:25doing the work that you already know
  36. 1:27that you need to do. So where exactly is
  37. 1:30that line? And how do you know whether
  38. 1:32you are genuinely waiting for the right
  39. 1:34person or whether you are using healing
  40. 1:37as a very sophisticated way of staying
  41. 1:40safe? And that's what we're going to
  42. 1:42talk about today. Hey guys, I'm Andrea.
  43. 1:44Welcome back to my channel. So today's
  44. 1:47video is about the question that I get
  45. 1:49asked genuinely all the time. And that's
  46. 1:52the question of do I need to be fully
  47. 1:55healed before I get into a relationship
  48. 1:57or should I wait until I'm completely
  49. 2:00secure and have worked through
  50. 2:02everything before I let someone into my
  51. 2:04life? And I completely understand why
  52. 2:07this question is so confusing because
  53. 2:10everywhere that you look, you're getting
  54. 2:11a different answer. One person says you
  55. 2:14need to heal yourself first. Another
  56. 2:16person says you know you'll never be
  57. 2:18completely healed so just go and date.
  58. 2:21Someone says you have to become secure
  59. 2:24before you can have a secure
  60. 2:25relationship. And someone else says you
  61. 2:28actually can heal through being loved
  62. 2:31properly. So which one is it? Which one
  63. 2:33is true? Do you wait? Do you date? Do
  64. 2:36you heal yourself first? Do you let
  65. 2:39someone in? I think we've made this much
  66. 2:42more complicated than it needs to be
  67. 2:44because I don't think that the real
  68. 2:46question is that am I healed enough to
  69. 2:49be in a relationship? I think the better
  70. 2:51question is that am I in a place where I
  71. 2:55can be in a relationship without making
  72. 2:58another person responsible for
  73. 3:01regulating me or healing me. And those
  74. 3:03are two very different things that
  75. 3:05basically show that you come from a very
  76. 3:07different place and a very different
  77. 3:09intention because you can be imperfect
  78. 3:11and still be ready for love. You can
  79. 3:13have insecurities. You can have
  80. 3:15triggers. You can have fears. You can
  81. 3:18have you can have things that you're
  82. 3:19still working through. You can have
  83. 3:20moments where you're not your most
  84. 3:22secure self and still be a loving and
  85. 3:26emotionally responsible partner. But
  86. 3:29there's also a difference between I'm
  87. 3:31still healing and I'm waiting for
  88. 3:34someone else to make me feel okay. So
  89. 3:37the first question we need to ask is
  90. 3:39what do we actually mean by healed?
  91. 3:41Because before we even answer whether
  92. 3:44you need to be healed, I think that we
  93. 3:46need to define what we're talking about
  94. 3:48because what does fully healed even
  95. 3:51mean? Does it mean that you never get
  96. 3:53jealous? You never overthink? You never
  97. 3:56feel insecure? You never get triggered?
  98. 3:58You never fear rejection. You never have
  99. 4:00a bad day. You never need reassurance.
  100. 4:03You never have an emotional reaction. If
  101. 4:06that is the standard, I generally don't
  102. 4:08think that anyone is ever getting into a
  103. 4:10relationship because what we forget if
  104. 4:13we put this standard is that we are all
  105. 4:15human and relationships are intimate.
  106. 4:18The role of relationships is to bring
  107. 4:20these things into surface. Relationships
  108. 4:23are mirrors. And even when you're fully
  109. 4:26healed, they're going to still find a
  110. 4:29way to show you and reflect to you
  111. 4:32something about yourself that you need
  112. 4:34to grow on and heal on because we're
  113. 4:36humans and we're ever growing. So if
  114. 4:38you're ever growing, it means that
  115. 4:40you're ever healing. You're ever
  116. 4:42becoming. So if you're ever becoming
  117. 4:44that means your relationships even like
  118. 4:47if you reach the zenith of the healing
  119. 4:49you could do at this stage in your life
  120. 4:51your relationship will still trigger you
  121. 4:53because you're going to reflect a new
  122. 4:56aspect of yourself that is going to be
  123. 4:58growing that is going to be evolving.
  124. 5:01The nature of relationships is that they
  125. 5:03need to be intimate. So the nature of
  126. 5:05relationships is to bring things to the
  127. 5:07surface. The closer somebody gets to
  128. 5:10you, the more opportunities there are
  129. 5:12for your deepest fears to be touched.
  130. 5:15And I don't think that the goal of
  131. 5:17healing is to become a woman who can
  132. 5:19never be triggered. This is not the
  133. 5:21point. I think actually that the goal is
  134. 5:24to become a woman who knows what to do
  135. 5:27when she is triggered. And that's a very
  136. 5:29different standard because imagine two
  137. 5:31women who experience the exact same
  138. 5:33situation. For example, their partner
  139. 5:36takes longer than usual to respond. Both
  140. 5:38of these women are going to feel that
  141. 5:40familiar little drop in their stomach.
  142. 5:43Both of them, they might think that,
  143. 5:45well, something's wrong. Something's up.
  144. 5:47Both of them are might feel insecure for
  145. 5:50that moment. Neither one of them has
  146. 5:51become completely healed. But one woman
  147. 5:54immediately starts spiraling. She checks
  148. 5:56her phone. She creates a story. She
  149. 5:59withdraws to punish him. She might send
  150. 6:01a passive aggressive message. She might
  151. 6:03start testing him. She might start
  152. 6:05convincing herself that that person is
  153. 6:07losing interest. And now that trigger is
  154. 6:11running the relationship while the other
  155. 6:13woman feels the exact same initial
  156. 6:16reaction, but she notices it. She
  157. 6:19thinks, "Okay, well, right now I'm
  158. 6:21feeling activated." And she doesn't
  159. 6:23shame herself for it. And she doesn't
  160. 6:25immediately turn the feeling into a
  161. 6:28fact. She's able to give herself some
  162. 6:30space. She checks what is actually
  163. 6:32happening and know what is her mind is
  164. 6:34telling him that it's happening. And if
  165. 6:36something genuinely needs to be
  166. 6:38addressed, she communicates it. Maybe
  167. 6:41she's still uncomfortable, maybe she
  168. 6:43still needs reassurance, maybe that
  169. 6:45woman still has a little work to do, but
  170. 6:48the trigger doesn't get to take over the
  171. 6:52entire relationship. So, we have the
  172. 6:54same trigger, but completely different
  173. 6:57responses. And that's what I think
  174. 6:59healing actually looks like. It's not
  175. 7:01never feeling anything, not never
  176. 7:03getting triggered. It's having more
  177. 7:06choice in what you do with what you
  178. 7:08feel. It's having more choice with how
  179. 7:11you react when you get triggered, when
  180. 7:14you get activated. You do not need to be
  181. 7:16healed. You need to be responsible. And
  182. 7:19this is where I think that the
  183. 7:20conversation gets more useful because I
  184. 7:24don't think that you need to be fully
  185. 7:26healed before you get into a
  186. 7:29relationship. But I do think that you
  187. 7:31need to be responsible for your own
  188. 7:33healing before you get into a
  189. 7:35relationship. The difference is that you
  190. 7:37can enter a relationship with wounds,
  191. 7:39but you can't enter one expecting that
  192. 7:42your partner is going to be the one that
  193. 7:44is going to constantly manage those
  194. 7:46wounds for you. You can say this is
  195. 7:48something that I'm working on that is
  196. 7:51healthy that is aware but there's a
  197. 7:53difference between this gets activated
  198. 7:55for me sometimes and I'm learning how to
  199. 7:58handle it and this gets activated
  200. 8:01therefore you need to change everything
  201. 8:03that you're doing so I never get to feel
  202. 8:05it I never get to be in touch with that
  203. 8:07feeling again never have to deal with
  204. 8:09that feeling again one is taking
  205. 8:11responsibility while the other is
  206. 8:13outsourcing it is expecting the other
  207. 8:17person to never trigger you, to never do
  208. 8:21anything that will um activate you. And
  209. 8:24I think this is where the idea of being
  210. 8:27fully healed can actually become
  211. 8:29counterproductive because you can start
  212. 8:31believing I need to fix myself before
  213. 8:34anyone can love me. And that can sound
  214. 8:37like self-development, but underneath
  215. 8:40it, there can be another belief that the
  216. 8:43version of me that exists right now
  217. 8:45isn't worthy of being loved. And I don't
  218. 8:48want you to build your healing journey
  219. 8:50on that belief. You do not have to
  220. 8:53become perfect before you're lovable.
  221. 8:55You do not have to eliminate every
  222. 8:58insecurity before someone can choose
  223. 9:00you. You do not have to resolve every
  224. 9:03wound before you're allowed to
  225. 9:05experience intimacy. And I think it's
  226. 9:07because part of being in a healthy
  227. 9:09relationship is learning how to be known
  228. 9:11while you're still human. The goal is
  229. 9:13not that I will heal everything and then
  230. 9:16I will finally be ready for love. I will
  231. 9:19finally be worthy to be loved. It's that
  232. 9:22I'm willing to keep growing even while
  233. 9:25I'm loved. And I think this is the more
  234. 9:28realistic definition of readiness. But
  235. 9:31there's also a difference between being
  236. 9:33imperfect and being unavailable. And
  237. 9:36this is where I want to draw an
  238. 9:37important line. I don't want you to hear
  239. 9:39me say you don't need to be healed. So
  240. 9:42just get into any relationship no matter
  241. 9:44what. No, there are certain things that
  242. 9:47you do need to be able to do. You need
  243. 9:49to be capable of taking accountability.
  244. 9:52You need to be capable of communicating.
  245. 9:55You need to be capable of hearing
  246. 9:57another person's perspective without
  247. 10:00immediately becoming defensive. You need
  248. 10:03to be able to recognize when something
  249. 10:05is yours to work on. You need to be able
  250. 10:08to apologize. You need to be able to
  251. 10:10repair. You need to be able to tolerate
  252. 10:14some discomfort without you immediately
  253. 10:16running away from it. And you also need
  254. 10:18to be willing to look at yourself
  255. 10:20honestly because there's a difference
  256. 10:22between I'm still healing and the I'm
  257. 10:25not ready to take responsibility for how
  258. 10:28my wounds affect another person. The
  259. 10:31first one is human but the second one is
  260. 10:33a problem. And I think again this is a
  261. 10:35better measure of readiness. Not how
  262. 10:38healed am I but how willing am I to be
  263. 10:41accountable for myself? Because you can
  264. 10:43be deeply wounded and still be
  265. 10:46emotionally responsible. And you can
  266. 10:48also be incredibly knowledgeable about
  267. 10:51attachment theory, about therapy, about
  268. 10:53healing, about boundaries, about
  269. 10:56self-love, psychology, and still be
  270. 10:59completely unwilling to look at your own
  271. 11:02behavior and be aware of what you're
  272. 11:04doing. So knowing the language of
  273. 11:06healing isn't the same as doing the
  274. 11:09work. And so this brings me back to
  275. 11:11those two women that I talked about at
  276. 11:13the beginning. Both say that I'm not
  277. 11:16dating right now. I'm focusing on
  278. 11:18myself. But let's look a little bit
  279. 11:20closer. The key difference between these
  280. 11:22two women is the intention behind their
  281. 11:25actions. So one woman comes from a place
  282. 11:28of fear and needing to protect herself
  283. 11:31from any possible hurt. But the second
  284. 11:34one comes from a place of love. Love of
  285. 11:37the life that she has built. So, the
  286. 11:39first woman is saying it because she's
  287. 11:41afraid. She's been hurt in the past. She
  288. 11:44doesn't trust people anymore. She's
  289. 11:46constantly looking for signs that
  290. 11:48someone might disappoint her. She tells
  291. 11:51herself that I'm just protecting my
  292. 11:53peace. But in reality, she's making sure
  293. 11:56that nobody gets close enough to disrupt
  294. 12:00it, to disregulate her, to trigger her.
  295. 12:03She's controlling the exposure. She's
  296. 12:06controlling the risk and she's
  297. 12:08controlling the possibility of
  298. 12:09rejection. And because she's never
  299. 12:12putting herself in a situation where she
  300. 12:14could be heard, she also never gets the
  301. 12:17opportunity to discover that she could
  302. 12:19survive being heard differently this
  303. 12:22time. She's not necessarily choosing
  304. 12:24solitude. She's using solitude to feel
  305. 12:27safe. And there's nothing shameful about
  306. 12:29that. Maybe she needs some time. Maybe
  307. 12:32she's genuinely overwhelmed. Maybe she's
  308. 12:35healing from something that was very
  309. 12:36painful and that is okay. But she needs
  310. 12:40to be honest with herself about that
  311. 12:42because if the thought of dating
  312. 12:44creates, oh my god, what if they hurt
  313. 12:46me? What if they leave? What if I trust
  314. 12:48and I again the wrong person and I end
  315. 12:51up being wrong again? What if I lose
  316. 12:53myself again? Then if you come from that
  317. 12:55place, then maybe the thing you are
  318. 12:58waiting for isn't the right person. But
  319. 13:00maybe you're waiting until love feels
  320. 13:03completely risk-f free. The truth is
  321. 13:06that love will never be completely
  322. 13:09risk-f free. The second woman is also
  323. 13:11not dating. But she is in a completely
  324. 13:14different place. She's not hiding out of
  325. 13:17fear. She's leaving. She's going to
  326. 13:19work. She's seeing her friends. She's
  327. 13:21traveling. She's learning. She's
  328. 13:23creating. She's dating when she wants
  329. 13:26to. And she's not dating when she
  330. 13:27doesn't. and she was able to build a
  331. 13:30life that she genuinely loves. And she's
  332. 13:33not thinking nobody's good enough for
  333. 13:35me. She comes from a place where she's
  334. 13:37thinking I don't need to force something
  335. 13:40just because I don't want to be alone.
  336. 13:42She's not afraid of people. She's not
  337. 13:44afraid of intimacy. She's not afraid of
  338. 13:47being vulnerable. She's just not willing
  339. 13:49to interrupt the peace that she created
  340. 13:52for herself for a relationship that
  341. 13:55doesn't fit. And I think that's a very
  342. 13:57important distinction because one woman
  343. 14:00is saying nobody gets close because I
  344. 14:03don't trust people while the other woman
  345. 14:05is saying that someone can get close
  346. 14:08when there's actually something worth
  347. 14:11building with them. So it's the same
  348. 14:13behavior but it comes from a very
  349. 14:15different root. One comes from the root
  350. 14:17of fear of getting hurt while the other
  351. 14:20one comes from the root of valuing what
  352. 14:22she's already built. And that's why I
  353. 14:25think we need to stop judging decisions
  354. 14:28purely by what they look like from the
  355. 14:30outside. You can say, "I'm single. I'm
  356. 14:32not dating. I'm focusing on myself."
  357. 14:34These words don't tell you enough. You
  358. 14:38have to ask what is underneath this
  359. 14:41boundary or wall. And this is what I
  360. 14:44think is one of the most useful
  361. 14:46questions that you can ask yourself. And
  362. 14:48it's the question that is this a
  363. 14:50boundary or is this a wall? because they
  364. 14:52can look almost identical. A boundary
  365. 14:55says I know what works for me and I'm
  366. 14:58willing to let people get close while
  367. 15:01still honoring myself. And the wall says
  368. 15:03that nobody gets close because I need to
  369. 15:06make sure that I can never be hurt
  370. 15:08again. A boundary still allows intimacy,
  371. 15:11but a wall prevents it. A boundary says
  372. 15:14that if someone consistently treats me
  373. 15:17in a way that doesn't work for me, I
  374. 15:19will leave. while a wall says that I
  375. 15:22won't let anyone get close enough for me
  376. 15:25to ever find out how they will treat me.
  377. 15:28And so that's their huge difference.
  378. 15:30Healing is not supposed to make you
  379. 15:33impossible to hurt. It's just supposed
  380. 15:36to make you trust yourself enough to
  381. 15:39know that if something happens, I will
  382. 15:42be able to handle it. This is what
  383. 15:43safety sounds like. It's not that
  384. 15:46nothing bad will ever happen to me.
  385. 15:48Safety says that I trust myself to
  386. 15:51respond if it does to take care of
  387. 15:54myself properly if it does. And I think
  388. 15:56this is something you can build without
  389. 15:58waiting for that perfection. So what if
  390. 16:00you're still triggered? This is where I
  391. 16:02think so many women get really more
  392. 16:05confused because they think that if I
  393. 16:08still get anxious, I'm not healed. If I
  394. 16:10still get jealous, I'm not healed. If I
  395. 16:13still want reassurance, it means that
  396. 16:15I'm still not healed. If I still have
  397. 16:17abandonment fears, it means that I'm
  398. 16:19still not healed. But what if the
  399. 16:22presence of the feeling isn't a problem?
  400. 16:25What if the question is what happens
  401. 16:27next? Yes, you get triggered. Do you
  402. 16:30immediately make the feeling mean
  403. 16:33something? Or can you pause? Can you
  404. 16:36say, "Oh, this is bringing something up
  405. 16:39for me rather than you going, oh, this
  406. 16:41just proves something is wrong.
  407. 16:43Something is going to happen." Can you
  408. 16:45communicate without making the other
  409. 16:48person responsible for eliminating your
  410. 16:51fear? Can you hear reassurance without
  411. 16:54you needing it repeatedly every 10
  412. 16:56minutes? Can you notice when you're
  413. 16:58reacting from the past instead of the
  414. 17:00present? Can you apologize when you
  415. 17:03realize you projected something onto
  416. 17:06somebody? Can you let somebody show you
  417. 17:08who they actually are instead of making
  418. 17:11them pay for what someone else did in
  419. 17:14your past? That is growth. And a lot of
  420. 17:16times, relationships will reveal things
  421. 17:19about you that you didn't know they were
  422. 17:21still there. And that is okay because a
  423. 17:23healthy relationship isn't a test that
  424. 17:25you have to pass before you're allowed
  425. 17:28inside. Sometimes it's a place where you
  426. 17:30get to discover all of the places that
  427. 17:32you still need to grow, that you still
  428. 17:34need to work on, you still need to do a
  429. 17:37bit more work on. But don't use healing
  430. 17:40to avoid real life. There's another side
  431. 17:43to this conversation that I think that
  432. 17:45we need to be honest about. Sometimes
  433. 17:47the I'm working on myself becomes a very
  434. 17:51comfortable place to hide because
  435. 17:53healing can become endless. You can
  436. 17:56always find another wound. You can
  437. 17:58always find another belief, another
  438. 18:01attachment pattern, another thing that
  439. 18:03you should work on, another book that
  440. 18:05you need to read, another podcast that
  441. 18:07you need to listen to, another part of
  442. 18:09yourself that you need to improve and
  443. 18:11fix. And so, you know, suddenly you are
  444. 18:14waiting to become some imaginary,
  445. 18:17perfect, ideal version of yourself who
  446. 18:20has no fears, no insecurities, no
  447. 18:23triggers, no baggage. and that person
  448. 18:27doesn't exist. That version of yourself
  449. 18:29doesn't exist. At some point, you have
  450. 18:32to actually leave. You have to have
  451. 18:34conversations. You have to risk being
  452. 18:37misunderstood. You have to let somebody
  453. 18:40know you and you have to find out what
  454. 18:43it is like to have your wounds touched
  455. 18:46by real intimacy, real vulnerability.
  456. 18:50You cannot learn everything about
  457. 18:52relationships while you're standing
  458. 18:54outside of them. There are things that
  459. 18:56you only get to learn through being with
  460. 18:59another human being. Like for example,
  461. 19:01how do I communicate when I'm hurt? How
  462. 19:03do I handle conflict? How do I receive
  463. 19:06love? How do I maintain myself inside
  464. 19:09closeness? How do I repair after I made
  465. 19:12a mistake? How do I let somebody support
  466. 19:16me without becoming dependent on them?
  467. 19:18How do I get to remain myself while
  468. 19:21becoming part of a wei? You cannot
  469. 19:23practice all of these alone. And that's
  470. 19:26why I do not believe that healing and
  471. 19:28relationships have to happen in two
  472. 19:31completely separate chapters of your
  473. 19:33life. Sometimes they overlap. But key
  474. 19:36reminder, don't expect the relationship
  475. 19:38to heal what you refuse to face. At the
  476. 19:42same time, I don't want to romanticize
  477. 19:45the idea that the right person will heal
  478. 19:48me, the right person will fix me because
  479. 19:50they won't. The right person can create
  480. 19:53a safe environment. They can love you.
  481. 19:55They can reassure you. They can be
  482. 19:57consistent. They can communicate. They
  483. 20:00can show you that not everyone behaves
  484. 20:03like the people who hurt you. And that
  485. 20:05can be incredibly healing. But the thing
  486. 20:08is they cannot do your internal work for
  487. 20:11you. They cannot make you believe that
  488. 20:13you're worthy. They cannot regulate
  489. 20:16every emotion that you have. They cannot
  490. 20:18consistently prove that they won't
  491. 20:20leave. They cannot undo every experience
  492. 20:24that you ever had. And if you're asking
  493. 20:26someone to carry all of that for you,
  494. 20:29eventually the relationship becomes less
  495. 20:32like a partnership and more like
  496. 20:34treatment. And that is not fair to put
  497. 20:36on another person. So let yourself be
  498. 20:40loved while you're healing, but don't
  499. 20:42make someone responsible for that
  500. 20:44healing. That is a distinction that I
  501. 20:46want to make. So should you date? You're
  502. 20:49asking me, should I wait until I'm
  503. 20:52completely healed before I date? My
  504. 20:54answer is no. I don't think that you
  505. 20:57need to wait for perfection. But I also
  506. 21:00don't think that you should force
  507. 21:01yourself to date just because you think
  508. 21:04that you need to put yourself out there.
  509. 21:06Instead, ask yourself, can I let someone
  510. 21:10into my life without making that person
  511. 21:12responsible for my sense of safety, for
  512. 21:15my sense of worth or my identity? And
  513. 21:17also ask yourself, am I avoiding dating
  514. 21:20because I genuinely don't want it right
  515. 21:22now or because I am terrified of what
  516. 21:26dating might bring up for me? And maybe
  517. 21:29most importantly, ask yourself, if
  518. 21:31someone healthy came into my life
  519. 21:33tomorrow, would I actually let them get
  520. 21:36close? Because I think these questions
  521. 21:38are going to tell you a lot. If your
  522. 21:40answer in this last question is that I
  523. 21:42would love to meet someone, I'm open.
  524. 21:45I'm just not forcing anything. Then
  525. 21:47beautiful. You don't need to go hunting
  526. 21:50for a relationship. But if your answer
  527. 21:53is absolutely not, I don't trust anyone.
  528. 21:55I don't want to need anyone. I don't
  529. 21:58want anyone to have the ability to hurt
  530. 22:01me. Then maybe there's still some work
  531. 22:04there. And not because you're broken and
  532. 22:07undeserving of love and therefore you
  533. 22:10need to fix yourself before you get in a
  534. 22:12relationship that you might end up
  535. 22:13hurting someone, but because you I want
  536. 22:17you to protect yourself. You also can
  537. 22:20hurt others, but mostly you're in a
  538. 22:23fragile state where you can hurt
  539. 22:26yourself. And I think you really deserve
  540. 22:28to understand the feeling of what ready
  541. 22:32actually feels like and what ready
  542. 22:34actually looks like. I don't think that
  543. 22:37readiness looks like nothing triggers me
  544. 22:40anymore. I think that it looks more like
  545. 22:43I know myself. I can communicate. I'm in
  546. 22:46a place where I can take accountability.
  547. 22:48I can recognize when something is mine
  548. 22:51to work on. When something is mine to
  549. 22:53regulate. I can let someone be different
  550. 22:56from the people who hurt me. I can
  551. 22:59tolerate some uncertainty without
  552. 23:02needing to control everything. I can
  553. 23:04receive love without immediately
  554. 23:07questioning whether I deserve it. I can
  555. 23:10be alone if I need to be. I can walk
  556. 23:13away if something is not right for me.
  557. 23:15And maybe most importantly, I know that
  558. 23:18being rejected by someone doesn't mean
  559. 23:20that I have been rejected by life.
  560. 23:23That's readiness to me. It's not
  561. 23:25perfection, but it's capacity. It shows
  562. 23:28to me that you are capable enough to go
  563. 23:31into a new relationship. I think that we
  564. 23:33have accidentally turned healing into
  565. 23:36another form of performance. We are
  566. 23:38constantly asking, "Am I healed enough?
  567. 23:41Am I secure enough? Am I feminine
  568. 23:44enough? Am I ready enough?" And
  569. 23:46underneath all of those questions is
  570. 23:49sometimes another way of asking this
  571. 23:52question. Am I finally good enough to be
  572. 23:55loved? And I want you to be very careful
  573. 23:57with that because you don't have to earn
  574. 24:01your right to be loved, your right to
  575. 24:04experience love by you having to become
  576. 24:07a flawless version of yourself. You are
  577. 24:10allowed to be a work in progress. You
  578. 24:12are allowed to have fears. You're
  579. 24:15allowed to have things that you're still
  580. 24:17learning. You're allowed to be loved
  581. 24:19while you're still growing. But you also
  582. 24:22have to be honest about what you're
  583. 24:25asking another person to carry. A
  584. 24:28healthy love isn't I have no wounds and
  585. 24:31neither do you. But it's I know my
  586. 24:34wounds are mine to work on and I trust
  587. 24:37you enough to let you know me while I am
  588. 24:40working on these wounds. So, if you're
  589. 24:42currently saying, "I'm not dating. I'm
  590. 24:45focusing on myself." I don't want you to
  591. 24:47immediately decide whether that's good
  592. 24:50or bad. Instead, I want you to sit with
  593. 24:52it and ask yourself, am I creating space
  594. 24:56for the right person or am I creating
  595. 24:58distance from anyone and everyone? Am I
  596. 25:01enjoying my life or am I waiting for my
  597. 25:05life to feel safe enough? Am I being
  598. 25:07selective or am I avoiding
  599. 25:09vulnerability? Is this a boundary or is
  600. 25:12this a wall? If someone genuinely
  601. 25:15healthy showed up, would I let them in?
  602. 25:18And be brutally honest because nobody
  603. 25:21else needs to know the answer. But you
  604. 25:24do. You need to know this. And if you
  605. 25:27realize that you're in a place where
  606. 25:29you're protecting yourself, I don't want
  607. 25:31you to shame yourself for that either.
  608. 25:33Maybe you are in a place where you need
  609. 25:34more time. So take it, but call it what
  610. 25:38it is. You do not have to dress up your
  611. 25:41fears as wisdom. And you don't have to
  612. 25:44dress your readiness up as perfection.
  613. 25:47Because if there's one thing I want you
  614. 25:49to take away from this video, it's this.
  615. 25:52You do not need to be fully healed
  616. 25:54before you get into a relationship. But
  617. 25:57you need to be fully honest about where
  618. 26:00you are. You need to be willing to take
  619. 26:02responsibility for yourself. You need to
  620. 26:05be willing to keep growing. And you need
  621. 26:07to be able to let another person be a
  622. 26:10partner rather than making them your
  623. 26:13therapist, your regulator, your proof of
  624. 26:16worth, or your solution to your
  625. 26:17loneliness. And if you're not ready yet,
  626. 26:20that's okay. You don't have to rush. But
  627. 26:23make sure that you are waiting because
  628. 26:26you're building something that you
  629. 26:28genuinely love and not because you are
  630. 26:31terrified of what might happen if you
  631. 26:34let someone in. Because as we've said,
  632. 26:36there's a huge difference between I'm
  633. 26:38not dating because I am afraid of being
  634. 26:40hurt and I'm not dating because I'm not
  635. 26:43willing to let just anyone into the life
  636. 26:46that I've built. One is protection while
  637. 26:49the other one is discernment. And
  638. 26:51sometimes you don't know which one
  639. 26:52you're practicing until you imagine the
  640. 26:56exact thing that you're supposedly
  641. 26:58waiting for. Imagine that the right
  642. 27:00person actually showed up tomorrow.
  643. 27:02someone emotionally available,
  644. 27:04consistent, kind, someone who
  645. 27:06communicates, someone who you genuinely
  646. 27:09feel safe with, someone that you
  647. 27:11actually like, would you be able to let
  648. 27:13them in? Or would you immediately find
  649. 27:16another reason why you're not ready?
  650. 27:19Because if the answer is, I will let
  651. 27:21them in, then maybe you're not waiting
  652. 27:24for healing. Maybe you're simply waiting
  653. 27:26for something that feels worth opening
  654. 27:29the door for. And if the answer is, I
  655. 27:32don't think I could, that's okay, too,
  656. 27:34because now you know what the work
  657. 27:36actually is. It's not about becoming
  658. 27:38perfect, but it's learning how to feel
  659. 27:40safe enough to be known. And I
  660. 27:42[clears throat] think that's the
  661. 27:43beautiful thing about real healing. It
  662. 27:46doesn't turn you into someone who never
  663. 27:48gets hurt, but it turns you into someone
  664. 27:51who no longer needs to hide from life
  665. 27:55just to avoid being hurt. So, no, I
  666. 27:57don't think that you need to be fully
  667. 27:59healed. I think that you need to be
  668. 28:01honest. Honest about what you're ready
  669. 28:03for, honest about what you're still
  670. 28:05working through, honest about what
  671. 28:08you're asking another person to carry,
  672. 28:10and honest about why you are waiting
  673. 28:14because fear can keep you waiting
  674. 28:16forever. But self-respect won't.
  675. 28:18Selfrespect will simply make you willing
  676. 28:22to wait for what is actually worth
  677. 28:25letting into your life. So that's it for
  678. 28:27today, guys. Thank you so much for being
  679. 28:29here and as always, I'll see you soon on
  680. 28:32the next one. Bye.

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