Increase Your Self-Esteem in 10 Days. Day 7: The Power Of Thought
Buddha said “We are what we think” and never was a truer word spoken than when this is applied to our view of ourselves...
Increase Your Self-Esteem in 10 Days. Day 4: The history of your self-esteem
I am offering you the chance to change. Follow a series of posts and increase your self-worth and esteem. Low self-esteem is like a weight around your neck and stops…
Dealing With Internal Conflict: A Case Study; Part 1: Awareness and analysis
Using the term "Analysing the voices in your head" will often conjure up images akin to the famous film One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest starring Jack Nicholson. Once you can get away from that kind of stereotypical response to such a term...
The 7 Day Challenge: Reflections
This will sound a little strange. I often have my best ideas about new posts and podcasts in the middle of the night when it wakes me up and I do my best to remember the detail in the morning...
The Basis Of The Inner Critic
Depression teaches us that we are not deserving of a normal, fruitful life. We go through long periods of believing that there is something inherently wrong with us. One of the major factors in this process is the formation of an inner critic which is a major underlying cause of depression and low self-esteem...
Dealing With Life’s Small (And Not So Small) Setbacks
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing...
Identify The Rebel And The Critic And Release The Champion
When I sometimes take the time to analyse my patients at any given point, there are always many codependents among them. This might be because I have had my own issues with this and like to work with them or it might just be an indication of the size of the issue...
Perfectionism Is Truly Driven By Self Defeating Thoughts
Samuel McChord Crothers once wrote "try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labours is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways". Do you feel like what you accomplish is never quite good enough?...
Partner Doesn’t Accept Your Boundaries… Get Out!
People like me are always trying to make others see the value of setting healthy boundaries in the spirit of emotional honesty. That is expressing what you feel honestly and assertively when there is a feeling that a boundary needs to be set...
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