Healing from people pleasing is a process. You go from focusing on others comfort, to saying no & enforcing boundaries.
But in that process of “healing”, you might’ve thrown out “kindness” as fake fuckery.
I’ve come to realize, whatever you threw out during your healing, you must reclaim & put back in its proper place.
Mercy is difficult to do when your sense of self is still coming online. But it must.
Mercy asks that you see the request behind the pain, the hurt behind the shield, the confusion behind the arrogance. And in order to SEE that, you must place mercy in the right place at the right time.
Nuanced Discernment 