Sometimes when I suggest we do inner child work, my patient will look at me as if I’ve just offered to read their aura. Though
Our mothers have the power to wound us like no one else. Those specific wounds keep us from knowing our acceptability and worth. I share 7 steps to healing from the pain your mother gave you.
Most critics’ jobs are to critique. To analyze and assess. The inner critic is different – her job is solely to criticize. That is her entire job. She’s not analyzing anything. She’s not even assessing. She’s not trying to be fair at all. She’s just throwing out criticism after criticism because that’s her function. That is her whole purpose in existing.
Your inner critic is an amalgamation of every negative thing anyone ever said about you, every side eye someone gave you, everything you ever interpreted as a negative judgment of you, and all of your insecurities. She gathers anything that will make you feel bad about yourself and uses it against you. She doesn’t care if it’s true; she just wants it to hurt.
I’ve written a couple of articles about what body neutrality is and why our society desperately needs it as an alternative to body negativity and
What most of us want to know is: How do I get more of what I want and less of what I don’t want? Good
My blog is intended to be a bit of a How-To in living a meaningful and easier life. It addresses topics such as managing painful
We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved.
As a born perfectionist, I have naturally been terrible at self-compassion (the two do not play well together). I still struggle with it, even though