Resilience is often a slow unfolding of understanding. What did that experience mean to me? What were the **gremlins mumbling?** Not only do we need to own our story and love ourselves in the process, we have to figure out the real story! We also have to learn how we protect ourselves from shame if we want to develop worthiness.

It’s not so much the act of authenticity that challenges the status quo—I think of it as the audacity of authenticity. Most of us have shame triggers around being perceived as self-indulgent or self focused. We don’t want our authenticity to be perceived as selfish or narcissistic. When I first started mindfully practicing authenticity and worthiness, I felt like every day was a walk through a** gauntlet of gremlins**. Their voices can be loud and unrelenting:

Gremlins are like toddlers. If you ignore them, they get louder. It’s usually best to just acknowledge
the messages. Write them down. I know it seems counterintuitive, but writing them down and owning
the** gremlins’ messages** doesn’t give the messages more power; it gives us more power. It gives us the
opportunity to say, “I get it. I see that I’m afraid of this, but I’m going to do it anyway.”

As we discussed in the last chapter, when we struggle to believe in our worthiness, we hustle for it.
The hustle for worthiness has its own soundtrack and for those of you who are my age and older, it’s
not the funky “Do the Hustle” from the ’70s. It’s the ***cacophony of shame tapes and gremlins***—those
messages that fuel “never good enough.”



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encore....vocabulaire...."Lorsque le jour se lève, Billy arrive enfin à détruire tous ces monstres venant de saccager la ville en les exposant aux rayons du soleil.

Carl Gustav Jung eut l’occasion d’écrire sur le “trickster” : un farceur, petit personnage mythique présent dans chaque culture. Pour Paul Radin, ce personnage représente un “miroir de l’esprit” humain. Jung de son côté théorisé autour du concept “d’enfant intérieur”.

Pour Jung le trickster serait un “archétype”, faisant ainsi parti de l’inconscient collectif. Ainsi cet archétype serait présent dans chaque être humain quelque soit sa culture. https://heroscontemporainsetpsychologie.wordpress.com/2011/0... Au delà de Jung, on retrouve bien sûr cette pulsionnalité chez les Gremlins : à noter également qu’il sembler être asexué.
Et puis cette question du refoulé et mis en évidence comme nous l’avions déjà évoqué que les gremlins ne peuvent apparaitre à la lumière du jour.