What if the voice in your head isn't you? | Laryssa Creswell | TEDxVUAmsterdam

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In her talk, Laryssa reflects on the messages we inherit through family, culture, and love, and how those messages can quietly become rules that shape how we live. Through the story of caring for her mother after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis, she explores how devotion, responsibility, and guilt can become deeply entangled. She shows how guilt is often loyalty to a message that no longer fits the life we are living now. What changed her perspective was the realization that caring for someone does not always have to mean doing everything alone. Sometimes love can look less like sacrifice and more like surrender, support, and redefining what care truly means. ​ Laryssa broadens this idea beyond caregiving, arguing that many people live by inherited messages about strength, peacekeeping, self-sacrifice, and worth. Her talk offers a path forward: recognize the message, question it, and choose what is true now. In doing so, she invites the audience to release the stories that confine them and

Tags: Empathy, English, Family, Goal-setting, Health, Life Development, TEDxTalks, [TEDxEID:68704]