18/08/2026
I was in a coaching session (yes, I'm a coach who takes coaching, because I know it works). We went looking for who I actually am underneath everything.
What surfaced was warmth. That underneath it all, I am a warm person.
I rejected it on the spot. The words were out of me before I could catch them. "Warmth is for sissies."
I sat there stunned by my own sentence. Where had I picked that up? I had carried it like a law of nature, and out loud it could not stand up for a second.
But it had been running my life for decades. Rationing my own warmth, letting it out on special occasions only, as though it was a weakness I had to keep under control.
These sentences sit at our core. We do not know we are holding them, and that is exactly why they last. They cannot survive daylight, though. Say one out loud and it comes apart.
What are the sayings you live by that you have never examined?
Own your shadows. Own your life.
PS. Full story on the blog: https://coachkristina.net/warmth-is-for-sissies-and-other-unexamined-beliefs/