Melinda Cates, Author at I Make a Difference

Unconscious Deservedness: Accepting What You Don’t Truly Deserve?

Leave a Comment / Self-Worth / By Melinda Cates

Unconscious deservedness often shapes our experiences, leading us to accept less than we truly deserve. Many of us navigate life with ingrained beliefs that dictate our worth, settling into routines and situations without questioning whether they genuinely reflect our value. This silent acceptance can keep us trapped, preventing us from recognizing our true potential and […]

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Your Value Identity Is Not Your True Value

Leave a Comment / Self-Worth / By Melinda Cates

If someone were to ask, “What’s your value?” how would you respond? Many of us pause and start talking about our jobs, contributions, and achievements. What people have said about us, and the value they have gained from us. But what we’re describing isn’t our true value; it’s the external value we bring. Understanding

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Seeing Your Worth Through Others Eyes

2 Comments / Self-Worth / By Melinda Cates

Do you struggle to recognize your worth and value, in what you do and more importantly in who you are? Do you experience feelings of unworthiness, and not being of value even though deep down inside you know otherwise? This struggle to acknowledge your worth and value stems from how your worth and value were

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The Truth About Boundaries

Leave a Comment / Emotional Healing, Personal Processing, True Self / By Melinda Cates

TRUTHS ABOUT BOUNDARIES… One of the truths, is: the boundaries you create ARE FOR YOU, not for the other person. Boundaries are guidelines for management of our own insecurities, our well-being and comfort, rather than as restrictions imposed on others. WHY DO WE NEED TO HAVE BOUNDARIES? Boundaries are invisible lines, that define the space

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The Underestimated Power Of Neediness

Leave a Comment / Emotional Healing, Underlying Emotional Issues / By Melinda Cates

Have you been told “You’re Needy”? If you have, what was your reaction to it? A gut punch, a squirm, anger, or even a shout of denial “No I’m not”? THIS IS THE UNDERESTIMATED POWER OF NEEDINESS It has a lot of power over you, because it generally is perceived as a weakness or dependency,

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What differentiates your human self and soul self

What Differentiates Your Human Self From Your Soul Self

2 Comments / Human Self, Personal Development, True Self / By Melinda Cates

THE Question! Who am I? Who is the true me? I’m sure over your lifetime, you’ve asked these questions many times. They were questions I asked myself when I was sixteen. I asked, out of desperation to not feel what I felt and be who I had become. This question became my purpose in life

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5 Patterns Of Conditioned Interaction For Unraveling

Relationship Patterns Of Interaction For Unraveling

Leave a Comment / Conditioning / By Melinda Cates

Relationship patterns are some of the most engrained and emotional processes to navigate let alone unravel. Yet when you unravel them, you create the space for deeper connections, more meaningful and real interactions. UNDERSTANDING CONDITIONED PATTERNS OR INTERACTION Patterns of conditioned interaction in your relationships stem from learned behaviors—what you’ve come to understand as acceptable

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Hate, Hurt and Healing

4 Comments / Healing / By Melinda Cates

The painful ache of the hurt, the helplessness of the powerlessness immersed in the desperateness, overwhelm and power of hate… The Complex Journey Of Understanding, And Navigating Hate, Hurt And Healing I will never forget the day the deep hurt and pain I felt that had been seething in me for years, boiled over into

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Self-Kindness – Reconnecting to the Naturally Kind You

Leave a Comment / Healing / By Melinda Cates

Kindness is one of the most beautiful human qualities you have. It is delicate, respectful, considerate, attentive, gentle and nurturing in its expression. Yet it can be elusive in your treatment of yourself, your interaction with others, how you treat and approach animals and objects and in what you receive from others. Life, impacting situations,

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Do you hear the Voice of Your True Conscience

3 Comments / True Self / By Melinda Cates

There is one simple thing that you can do that will make your world better or enhance it – and that is to do the right thing or do more of the right thing. But what does doing the right thing mean? It means different things to different people, different cultures, different religions and even

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