The Truth About Ego

And Yes Women Have Them…

As a collective, women have been attacked so much for so long that it is imbedded in our nervous systems to be on the alert for attack and to go on the defensive even if there is no reason to do so. Often when a woman feels invalidated in her pain, her ego will come out swinging. (I’m a woman so I’m speaking from that perspective, even though men have egos too.)

Egos not only self-aggrandize, they often make us feel less than. When we feel lacking in some way, or put down, our egos want to make us feel better. We usually do this by lashing out and project our feelings at another instead of examining and observing them.

Emotional triggers happen when we have an unhealed parts of ourselves. The outside world in general will trigger us to feel what we have yet…