Blossom Where You Bleed Ep3: Gratification Is Not Fulfillment

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Today's episode covers what gratification and fulfillment are as well as what they are not while navigating this whole sphere of existence. Often we as humans use short term, fleeting gratification to fill the voids of places where we've been hurt, and those voids turn into vices.

We don't grow, and we don't learn to cope through dulling ourselves from those wounds. Gratification can feel great in the moment, but if it leaves you feeling empty afterwards, then we never give ourselves a chance to reach fulfillment.

Today's episode covers ways I have used to find my own sense of fulfillment, ways I have helped my clients reach that state, and ways in which I use to remind myself from time to time (okay, you got me, daily) that giving into my vices (eating disorders, compulsive movement, over exercise) will only ever take from me witho ...