Q : What’s one thing you’ve done that’s helped you heal your inner self?

A : I stopped putting expectations on the people close to me, particularly family. I kept on creating this narrative that they would change, that they would start thinking differently, that they would start to understand my struggles and have empathy but their help had a funny way of making me more depressed and anxious and making me feel worse about myself. I realised that they aren’t going to change and that constantly building up these situation in my mind hoping that they come around was just eating me up on the inside. So now I have no expectations of them. I don’t expect their help, their support, their guidance, their advice, nothing. I still care about them and have love for them but I’ve basically cut them off emotionally.