So many people with herpes are terrified of other people finding out their secret. They feel like their whole world will come crashing down if they are found out. But this might just be a misplaced fear, especially when you're clear on the kinds of people you want in your life and who you don't.
What if others judge me for having herpes?
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Imagine the most evil judgment that someone could have about you and you're just they know they know nothing about you other than you're you're a coworker and then they have the audacity to hear something like, "Yeah, she has herpes." Oh, well, she must be this kind of a person. She must be that kind of a person. Dudging the out of you. Do you want to be friends with that person? Do you even want to be like, do you give a about what they think? Do you want to expose yourself to that kind of a person who would judge someone at face value like that? Why would you put any energy into what that kind of a person would think about you? So, but the then the thing is is that when when it bothers you that someone might pass you in the hall and say, "Oh, there's that there's that girl with herpes." It's your own associations around what that means. And do you know that like a lot of a lot of people who um who have gone through experiences in their life that have been traumatic or that have shame associated with it. Um those kind of people would actually hear that you have herpes and be like oh a confidant or oh a human being. ...
... Right? So, don't underestimate the um the power of you being you and not letting that impact you. What other people might think. Maybe even it sounds like it's actually waking up a deeper level of um of of importance to really like talk like walk your talk and be who you truly are, right? That if there is that like that worry of what are people thinking about me? Well, Let me step that step up that much more and be the amazing, kind, big-hearted human being that I know myself to be. Not that I need to prove it to anyone, but maybe if I'm worried that other people are going to judge me, maybe I'm actually not being myself enough to really show who I am. Maybe I'm hiding.
