written while plucking the pretzels (which have no flavor or crunch) from the chex mix

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(i started listening to voices/messages that keep repeating themselves to me. voices/messages which seem to ensure i always fall short or keep myself from moving forward [mostly career-wise and practice-wise].  these voicemessages are called distress recordings in co-counseling. i thought if i could name them, it would help me break them apart – take away their power. i also wrote ‘positive opposites’ or contradictions in response to each one. a way of peeking around the roadblock to see what it looks like from the other side. a way of saying fuck you to anything that ever told me i couldn’t.)
what keeps you from moving forward? and what are the contradictions you can name, the positive opposites you can offer to take away the power from what’s stopping you and give it to the momentum you are already building to move forward?