Help Is Not a Four-Letter Word
I’m back! In the last two years, speaking at conferences all over the country, including Puerto Rico, I’ve learned that Self-Sufficiency Syndrome is an EPIDEMIC! There are many, many of us that can’t ask for help, do everything all by ourselves, can’t delegate because no one else can do it as well, help others all the time but can’t ask to have the favor returned and we’re on our way to burnout.
In the coming weeks, I’ll tell you all about the stories I’ve heard. Today, here’s a couple about Self-Sufficients (that’s what I call the person like myself who lives this extreme behavior) who have driven themselves to the emergency room. Hope you’ll comment about your own experiences.
In a large women’s audience I asked “who would admit, like me, that you have driven yourself to the emergency room?” Twenty or thirty pairs of hands went up. And……the woman close to me said, “with Clorox in one eye.” Think about it. And most recently in Tampa, Fl a man called to me as I left the room. He wanted to tell me that he had been in pain, called his wife to meet him at the emergency room, drove himself and the minute he got inside the emergency room door, fainted from the pain. He had a kidney stone.
What are we doing to ourselves? More next week about that.
