When Fear Writes the Script

The stories we carry shape the love we experience.

📖 We all carry stories

Stories about love.

Stories about worth.

Stories about what might happen if we speak our truth.

Stories about why we can’t have the life, or the relationship, we deeply long for.

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🧠 Most of these stories weren’t consciously chosen

Some were written in childhood.

Others by heartbreak.

Most live quietly in the background, shaping what we expect, accept, and believe is possible.

Until we have the courage to pause and look at them… they feel like our only reality.

But they’re not.

They’re just stories. And they can be changed.

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⚠️ These stories are born from protection, not truth

They’re usually rooted in fear, most of it unconscious.

They run quietly in the background, like old software, trying to keep us safe the best way they know how.

But left unexamined, they keep writing the script of our lives and relationships.

They shape how we speak up about what we want, need, or feel—or quietly hold it in.

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💡We’re allowed to change the script

Our old defenses once served a purpose.

But they don’t have to define what happens next.

You’re not stuck.

You’re not broken.

You’re not trapped.

You’re just standing at the edge of a new chapter.

And the pen is in your hand.

Stay Courageous

Dean Arcan