Meet your Inner Oppressor.
Your Inner Oppressor is designed to bully, guilt, and tempt you into submitting to the dominant culture.
It keeps your biases hidden so you conform.
It keeps your boundaries weak so you #PeoplePlease.
It masks your sensitivities so you ignore injustice.
All to keep you safe, secure, and sheltered.
But instead of feeling protected, you feel tense, trapped, and tired.
Your Inner Oppressor isn’t going away.
You can’t bully it to behave differently.
You can’t cite positive affirmations to change its oppressive mindset.
That’s because your Inner Oppressor lives in your soul, and not in your head.
It will forever be a part of you.
To protect your energy, stand on the side of justice, be a better ancestor, and release your obedience to the dominant culture, you need a soul-based process to meet your Inner Oppressor.
One way is to use guided prompts to focus it on a particular bias or oppression.
Then use stream-of-consciousness writing to capture what your Inner Oppressor says, not from a place of judgement or criticism, but curiosity.
Click here to get started on your own Inner Field Trip.
What would be different in your life if you stopped believing the LIES your Inner Oppressor is telling you?
[image of a stick figure on a green background that says “Hi, I’m your Inner Oppressor. I’m that part of you that bullies, guilts, and tempts you into submitting & conforming to the dominant culture.”]
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Originally posted in the Inner Field Trip® community on Patreon on October 11, 2022 At 3:06pm Eastern on October 11, 2017, I published a post on my blog containing nine writing prompts to address spiritual bypassing, tone policing, and unconscious biases related to...
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