“Try to find compassion for your parents – Often, when you can see how your own parents were emotionally neglected, you can feel some compassion for what they didn’t get. This can help you to feel less angry and frustrated with them for failing you.” ...
If not, stop accusing yourself in your mind. This will help you to stop punishing yourself with ‘accidents’. In the example above, do you think the mother intended to harm her child? Nothing happened that she needs to punish herself for. When someone is guilty, the law of cause and ...
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When our brains are threatened, we become survivors. A child who is traumatized becomes an adult who only knows how to survive. We need to teach children to stop, breathe, and ask for help. Remind them and role model to them that they have strength. As educators, we have to learn ever...
In this post, we're going to look at how to write a story by focusing on one of the most important elements ofanystory: conflict. Every story has to have conflict. A story without conflict is boring. I don't want to read about how someone has it all together. ...
Constitution, Identity, Persistence A good theory may have some way of identifying itself to us and dissociating itself from the rest of the literature, thus facilitating talking about it and contrasting it with other accounts. As such, we may explore the separability of a the- ory from the ...
“In retrospect, it felt like we’d fucking—not won an Oscar—but if someone was paying us to do something,” Kay recalls, “it felt like an enormous win.” The commitment to the idea of this kind of life, and each other, paid off. Three years after the giant leap,...
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“Am I asking too much of myself?”“Would I ask this of another human being – especially someone I love?”“What is the worst-case scenario if I don’t get all this done/get all this right/produce something perfect/come across as perfectly “put together.” Truthfully, what is at ...
doing X to me” – you’re holding back on telling your therapist this. Your therapist is, by definition, someone who is listening without judgement; they’re here to help you process your feelings and your issues. Not talking about this makes it that much harder to understand and manage ...