09/30/2026
A note to a friend attacked on social media: USA has been choosing to live in fear and anger for decades. When individuals choose to live in fear and anger it grows the amygdala over time, bolstering more fear and anger. We have been watching society over the last few decades lean further into violent entertainment, real life crime, and now the combination of violence and humor. As if that doesnt condition desensitization and callousness. Add in generations of children raised on violent games that reward the brain when callous and compassion-free actions are taken. Add in the toxic positivity movement, (not to be mistaken with healthy positivity) Add all this to the fact that while in these fear and anger base mindsets our amygdala sees nothing but threats, because the amygdala helps us survive threat it doesn’t have the physical capacity to perceive and process logically. So individuals, especially now, are blindly attacking…blindly defending imagined attacks..all day long… and hidden behind a screen so they do so from that deepest shadow self that has no love at its center.
This is the basis of my life coach career. Always practicing and remaining centered in love and kindness all day long. In doing so people begin to recognize when others are simply misperceiving due to imagined threats. It’s far more comfortable to recognize that an adult is reacting out of fear than to feel confusion when faced with a reality that simply isn’t true for you…that their is something in you that reads to others as “demon.” What others think about you speaks far more about who they are, than what is says about who you are. ❤️ I don’t know you that well, but I know you enough to know that you’re a really decent human being.