Growing up in a toxic environment makes you hypersensitive about the opinions of others. You tend to seek validation outside yourself and crave the approval of others, even strangers. You could be working hard on a project and doing great, but someone tells you it’s weird or bad and you stop and doubt everything about it from start to finish. When you grow up without enough positive reinforcement it’s easy to feel a lack of it in your day-to-day life. The best way to approach this is to begin the process of finding inner peace. You can start right now without any big dramatic steps. It’s simply about learning to find the peace and surety within yourself instead of seeking it outside.
