Thanks for sharing your experience with this. I relate to that too. His words continued to shape both my inner and outer world for so long.

I also went through a stage I like to call my 'delayed teenage rebellion'! This was when I made decisions and took actions simply to try to prove him wrong, break his rules, or do all the things I knew he didn't like.

It is a long and difficult process to erase their voice from our minds, but it is so freeing when it slowly starts to fade and you begin to hear your own voice more and more 💛