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As a clinical psychologist, I am regularly confronted with the brutal truth that we are all lie.
When what we say doesn't match how we act, we are lying to ourselves.
It is actually a good survival strategy to manipulate twist, and reorganize the truth in a way that is more consistent with what we can psychologically tolerate.
The areas in which we felt most insecure, unsafe, unloved, uncomfortable, embarrassed, angry, and generally unresolved as a child are the areas that we will be most prone to self-deception as an adult.
When we aren't honest with ourselves about who we are and what we want, we allow other people and circumstance to determine our life course.
The truth is that pain is not inherently bad for us; pain is information.
In fact, lying to ourselves may be the most dangerous thing in the world because we live our truth whether we are honest about it or not.
We lie to ourselves about the smallest details, and we lie to ourselves about our largest life choices.
The more we lie to ourselves about how we are contributing to our problems, the more harm we will cause to ourselves and our relationships because we will blame others for undesirable aspects of our lives instead of taking responsibility for our role.
We lie to reflect the aspirational goals that we unconsciously know we will not uphold.
Humans are excellent liars.
The truth is that our self-deceptive lies range from seemingly tiny untruths to massive life-altering falsehoods about reality.
Self-deception comes from not having enough psychological strength to admit the truth and deal with the consequences that will follow when the truth is acknowledges.
I cannot overemphasize the impact our childhood has on our ability to be honest because we live out what we learned as children in our adult relationships.
