TRIGGERING PEOPLE IS THE RISK YOU TAKE TO BE YOURSELF

It’s better to risk disappointing someone else by being yourself, than it is to risk disappointing yourself by trying to please someone else. When you abandon your self-approval over the opinions of others, you abandon your ability to be yourself.

To be yourself means to be willing to violate other people’s expectations of you.
To be yourself means to be willing to witness people negatively react to you.
To be yourself means to be willing to watch people get offended by you.

By prioritizing your own self-approval, you don’t have to worry about how people will respond because when you respect yourself that deeply, you also respect other people’s opinions and values. It’s knowing that you matter too whether or not they affirm it.