Major Signs You Are Driving Your Life Down A Cliff

And how to pivot towards betterment

Sometimes our lives seem to be going well on the outside, but somewhere deep inside we know something is really, really wrong. We just can't put our finger on it.

If you have been spending the last few days, weeks, months (or years!) feeling like something’s not quite right, like it’s bothering you but you can’t get rid of it because you don’t know what it is — then you are not alone.

I have been there. By now, I think I live there — and so do many, many others.

Our clever brains do sneaky things like hiding our own problems from us to protect us.

You see this in people who disassociate from trauma. Their minds can’t process the pain of the situation so it chooses to disconnect with reality by suppressing, numbing, or straight up denying the feelings.

It’s not wrong, it’s a defense mechanism. But, it can be the accelerator to driving your life down the cliff. And the problem with this unconscious or purposely unnoticed behavior is, it hits us too late.

We don’t care about being consistently late until we are eventually fired. A white lie here and there seems okay until we are caught cheating. Hitting ‘add to cart’ once in a while when you are sad sounds reasonable until we have driven ourselves into debt.

The worst part is, this behavior seeps into other areas of our life, creating a snowball effect. Binge-eating slowly makes you reluctant to work out, which soon turns into self-criticism, crawling towards isolation and before you know it, you don’t have any friends because you can’t put down the bag of chips. It sounds crazy until you reflect on how you went from A to B.

The good part is, things don’t barrel down overnight. It’s a gradual process, which means, it can be spotted, contained, and reversed. For a long time, I waited until my life was in utter…

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