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7 Deadly Self-Development Traps
These 7 Traps on the Path of Self-Improvement Can Totally Derail Your Progress without You Even Knowing That You’re Caught
You never see a trap until it’s already got you.
Here are 7 (out of the several hundred) Self Development Traps I’ve found myself in:
1. The Healing Trap
How You Get Caught
You get caught because you need to heal. Something came along and took you out at the knees. You’re all banged up. There’s no doubt about that. It might have been a physical injury, it might have been emotional, it might have been some trauma, tragedy, or upheaval in your life.
And you’re trying to do the right thing: give yourself the time and care that you need to heal.
But at some point, what once was helpful becomes hurtful. A prison cell is a safe place until you need to get out. And that’s how the Healing Trap works. It keeps you long overdue in the process of healing when, in reality, it’s just preventing your growth.
How You Get Out
How? Because it confuses healing for comfort.
