You cannot pour from an empty cup
Flipping the script -journal entry-transcribed by chat gpt
The amount of time we don’t give ourselves compassion and grace—the very things we generously dole out to others—is appalling.
Like the cabin crews say during an emergency landing: put on your oxygen mask first before putting on the oxygen mask of the child you’re taking care of. Because only when you help yourself first can you truly help others.
You cannot help others at the cost of yourself.
You cannot bleed out to make others comfortable—there’s no nobility in that.
That’s self-betrayal. Self-abandonment.
Put on your oxygen mask first.
But many of us were trained to tend to others before tending to ourselves, and it takes a whole lot of unlearning to normalize caring for our own needs.
Rewire yourself one baby step at a time.
Every step you take toward yourself is an act of love—radical self-acceptance.
Every time you betray yourself, you are complicit in what happens. You’ve actively made that choice.
It’s time to own up to that and practice radical self-responsibility. Only when you accept your part in it can you make changes and flip the script.
You can’t keep throwing punches outward, placing all the blame on others. You have to own your role in making it happen.
This is not victim-blaming. This is not shaming.
This is taking responsibility.