Myriam Ben Salem🦋
1 min readApr 2, 2021

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Oh yasss! That's what I figured out while yielding the most challenging residual part of my former program: My "savior" pattern!

One impressive detail is how many layers this pattern contains. The first belief-level I destroyed — and my innocence with it — was, “All mortal beings are inherently good; thus, are worthy of being saved”.

The second one was way harder to indeed understand and accept, “Toxic inherently good people don’t deserve my investment”.

The final migration — the current step where I made satisfying progress — will, hopefully, be, “Even non-toxic inherently good people wouldn’t earn a chance unless they asked explicitly or implicitly for some guidance”.

Free-will is the keyword!

I suspect that what makes giving up on this pattern hard is the noble purpose. Unlike the limiting beliefs that we place as bad, being a savior is intrinsically good.

The truth is that it can only be harmful: first to the relationship, given their perception would be, "Something is fundamentally wrong about me; that's why Myriam wants to fix me".

Second, to me, since I am disrespecting myself in a way by offering my time and energy to an already lost cause.

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Myriam Ben Salem🦋
Myriam Ben Salem🦋

Written by Myriam Ben Salem🦋

A fur Momma, animal lover & advocate, lifelong learner, storyteller, edutainer, and published author. I write personal stories and essays.

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