The FOPO Trap: Breaking Free from the Fear of Other People's Opinions Let’s be honest for a second. How many times today have you played out a conversation in your head before it even happened? Or maybe you didn’t post that thing on Instagram because you were worried that one person from high school, you know, the one you haven’t spoken to in fifteen years, might think you’re a "try-hard"? It’s exhausting. It’s a literal drain on the battery of your soul. We’re talking about FOPO, Fear of Other People’s Opinions. It’s a term coined by Dr. Michael Gervais, and honestly, it’s one of the most pervasive, invisible hand-cuffs we wear in modern society. We’re so goddamn obsessed with what everyone else thinks that we’ve forgotten how to think for ourselves. We’re performing. We’re wearing masks over masks, and eventually, we lose sight of the face underneath. At Breathe N Bounce, we talk a lot about the raw side of mental health. In Michael’s chronicle, The Struggle, he t...
Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to write the Gratitude Chronicle this past Friday. I had some really exciting things happening—it was a time for happiness and celebration. And then we come to today, where I feel like absolute fucking shit. <a href=https://breathebounce.blogspot.com/p/im-late-but-honest.html>READ MORE</a>
