Nurture Your Inner Critic
There are a range of books that tell us how to deal with our family of inner critics. Most centre on mantras and progressively aggressive language to deal with them...
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Nurture Your Inner Critic
What Is The Inner Child?
I do a lot of inner child work with very interesting results. Touching the part of our emotional memory that has been locked away for years, can be a powerful, enlightening experience...
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What Is The Inner Child?
Dealing With Shame Means Naming, Facing And Repairing
Shame is the deepest of all emotions and has the ability to overwhelm those who acquire it. When we feel shame, we tend to feel alone...
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Dealing With Shame Means Naming, Facing And Repairing
Childhood Shame: How It Shapes Our World
We can all remember events in our childhood where we felt shame and those memories linger. You can see children being shamed every day on the streets of any town or city...
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Childhood Shame: How It Shapes Our World
Finding Your Adult Self Can Be Difficult
If we are honest with ourselves, we spend a lot of time in ‘child’ mode, re-enacting aspects of our development. Whether it’s in conflict with another or when we are ruminating or listening to our own self-talk, our younger selves often come through, consolidating our early beliefs...
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Finding Your Adult Self Can Be Difficult
Examining Your Past Effectively Can Lead to a Better Present
I am currently reading The Examined Life by Stephen Grosz. It is a captivating book that looks at the interactions between a psychoanalyst and his patients...
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Examining Your Past Effectively Can Lead to a Better Present
Re-parenting your Inner Child
We have seen clearly in my previous set of posts how an inner critic is formed from the defence mechanisms used by the wounded, criticised child and how these can be taken forward into adulthood...
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Re-parenting your Inner Child
Anxiety: The Facts
Many of the clients I deal with in my online therapy practice suffer from anxiety. Anxiety is the disorder of our modern times and the amount of people suffering from it is increasing every year...
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Anxiety: The Facts
Codependency: A Case Of Repetition Compulsion?
Codependents often exhibit a certain behavior in adult relationships, often moving from one to the next in a "copy and paste" scenario...
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Codependency: A Case Of Repetition Compulsion?
Narcissist Abuse Syndrome: Elements of Stockholm Syndrome and PTSD
I once had a client who was involved with the most abusive, self-absorbed, self-centred, controlling man you could ever imagine. He abused her physically, emotionally, financially and verbally...
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Narcissist Abuse Syndrome: Elements of Stockholm Syndrome and PTSD