I'm Natalie Lou and you're listening to the baggage reclaim sessions.

Hello hello.

How are you doing?

Today I want to talk about something that we've all experienced at times.

In fact, I could say that, you know, all of my dating and relationship history prior to being with M my now husband

was all about things being too good to be true and I know that when we have that

sensation that something or someone is maybe coming across like a little bit too perfect, possibly a lot too perfect, that it does cause unease. We feel nervous because if it turns

out that this thing is legit then you know happy days for us we will be able to relax into it and enjoy it but as

humans were risk of us right we all seek acceptance and we're all afraid of rejection

and we devote a lot of our bandwidth, so our time, energy, effort and emotions to dodging the likes of stress, conflict, criticism,

disappointment, loss and rejection, what I call life's inevitable.

As a result, situations that sort of set off the sense of, oh, this could be a bit too good to be true.

Yeah, that flags of the potential for loss for us. We worry that we're going to be screwed over, that we're going to be made a fool of, that we're going to be hurt, that we are going to experience undesirable consequences, whether that is how we're going to feel as a result or

that we're going to be walking into a situation or into something that we're not going to like.

So wondering if it's too good to be true

allows us to be guarded.

It allows us to protect ourselves

so that we can scan the parameter and see what's really up.

And what I really want to talk about here is how we can really try to understand well what is this too good to be

true thing coming from because yes sometimes someone or something is too good to be true in the shady sense, as in something's going down, right?

This person is trying to pull a fast one, or the thing isn't what it's being portrayed to be

Exploring why there is that sense of things being too good to be true helps us to get grounded and it

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