Posts Tagged ‘Self-growth’
Changing How We Relate to People by Understanding Ourselves
How do you relate with others? Are you secure? Do you struggle with social anxiety? Sometimes understanding the truth of how we relate to people is the first step to beginning to make the necessary changes in how we relate to people. Most people fail to understand that attachment takes place in the first three…
Read MoreThe Seven Cardinal Sins of Manipulative Parenting
How do you feel after someone has manipulated, guilted or shamed you into doing something for them? You do not feel good about yourself. You feel shameful and have poor self-esteem after the matter. To compound matters, how do you feel when you have no choice in a matter, and you are not allowed to…
Read MoreIs Your Recovery a “White Knuckle” Recovery or a Freedom Recovery?
Is Your Recovery a “White Knuckle” Recovery or a Freedom Recovery? When I was five years old, my parents took our family on a day trip to an amusement park outside of Philadelphia. I begged my parents to ride the wooden roller coaster at the park only to discover that it was a traumatic experience…
Read MoreThe Problems of Pain
I’ve been thinking a lot of the allegory of physical pain and emotional pain, and how you treat both as I go through extensive physical therapy for my physical pain. My physical pain requires me to focus on stretching out my muscles multiple times a day so that I am in less pain each day.…
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