Adult Issues We Should Not Be Talking To Our Children About
Our children and the way they grow up is usually precious to us and mostly as parents, we try to do the right thing...
Toxic Shame: How Children Cover Up Toxic Shame With Primary Ego Defences.
For a child who grows up in a dysfunctional environment where shame and possible abandonment issues are present, the feelings that are associated with this are worse than death...
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How To Recognise Four Types Of Healthy Shame
Shame is an emotion that affects everything we do and identifying and dealing with it is very difficult at times, even if we recognize our issues as shame based. Most people will attempt to hide their shame with secondary emotions like anger or sadness...
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...
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...
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...
Spanking Doesn’t Work And Drives Bad Behaviour Underground
Over the weekend, I witnessed a physical assault on a young child. You might not be surprised to know that he was with his parents at the time. I was in a store with my wife...
Codependency: The Impact Of Our Beginnings
Think about the following situations and the resulting behaviour...
Increase Your Self-Esteem in 10 Days. Day 5: Reframing your childhood
Day 5 is asking you to look to look at the negatives global labels you have believed since childhood. This is where your inner critical voices are at their strongest...
Confirmatory Bias: The Killer Of Self-Esteem
It always amazes me how talented and intelligent people spend a lot of their time trying to convince themselves that they are the opposite...
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