30 Lies/Fears I've Believed

1. All you need is love
2. “I am sorry” will fix it
3. If it is God’s will, it will go smoothly
4. My would will be perfect if (insert something) just happened
5. Ignore it and it will go away
6. Don’t be vulnerable, they will take advantage
7. Changing my mind is betraying all I once stood for
8. I have to be thin and pretty to be liked
9. If you love someone they will love you back
10. Always speak your mind
11. Being closer to someone just means getting hurt more
12. My mistakes messed up God’s plan for my life
13. I am not pretty because no one notices me
14. I am not enough as just me
15. I will be forgotten because I am not worth remembering
16. One day I will find out everyone was only faking it
17. I am weak and when something scary/big happens I will be found to be a coward/failure
18. I am not worth anything unless I am working hard to serve others or look pretty
19. One day, God is going to get tired of forgiving me and give up on me
20. If you really knew me, you wouldn’t like me anymore
21. My gut instinct is always wrong
22. I am just a hypocrite fooling myself
23. I am going to disappoint everyone l love the most
24. My dreams are silly and my standards are too high, I need a reality check
25. No one will ever really understand me
26. I can’t trust my heart and am just making up this whole ‘relationship with God’ stuff
27. I am inadequate for the job I am being asked to do
28. As long as I am a good girl people will like me—just try harder
29. Be quiet, because if you are loud you will just mess up
30. I am not pretty enough to be popular, and if people do like me, I must constantly live up to their expectations or they won’t like me anymore
31. If I were only prettier/nicer/funnier/better/normal…I would have everything I wanted                     (For me, this was a healing exercise—to identify each of these lies, and then write out the truths beside them)