Asking for help is innate. You've done it ever since you came out of the womb, and you do it all the time now, pointing at things, gurgling with your adorable toddler voice, "Dis, dis" or the way you call out "Mama" in a certain tone. I wonder how most of us lose the ability to ask for help. For me, too, at a certain point, I somehow associated asking for help with weakness, with being a burden, so I stopped doing it. I'll have to do some digging into when and how that happened, because my dear, I do not want you to think this way. Being independent and needing help does not have to be mutually exclusive. They can live in the same place. They should. You need your community, your tribe, as much as they need you. We are stronger as a team than individuals, but it still takes strong individuals to make a strong team. Don't forget that.
Love Always,
Your Mama
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