You were terrified. Needles, drills, a stranger's hands in your mouth. But they promised you a lollipop if you were good. So you swallowed the fear and took the candy. That's the training: endure the bad thing, get the good thing, never process the bad thing. We're still doing it. Stay in the toxic job for the bonus. Stay in the dead marriage for the house. Swallow the pain, collect the reward, wonder why we feel hollow. #PeoplePleasing #ToxicJob #EmotionalHealing #TraumaRecovery #UnfilteredWisdom