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Practicing Self-Compassion: How the “Golden Rule” Gets it Wrong
How the Golden Rule gets it wrong... Most of us grew up learning the infamous ???????????????????????? ????????????????: “Treat others how you want to be treated”. It's a great concept, yet we never learned perhaps an even more important rule: how to treat ourselves...
Is People Pleasing a trauma response?
As with most things, ????????'???? ???????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????? ???????? ????????????????????????????. I've been seeing a lot of information recently about people pleasing being a trauma response, and while it CAN be, it can also develop...
Myth Busting: Self-Compassion Edition
Let’s do some myth-busting! People are often resistant to. practicing self-compassion due to one of these misconceptions about what self-compassion involves or what it says about you. The research supports that self-compassion is one of the biggest indicators of...
EMDR explained
EMDR seems to be everywhere these days. Even Prince Harry has done EMDR therapy! So, what exactly is EMDR????????? ???????????????? ???????? ????????????????? EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. EMDR is an evidence-based treatment used in...
How to Reparent Your Inner Child: 7 Ways to Start
Here are 7 ways to start reparenting your inner child, including inner child healing exercises and activities you can actually try today. 1. Start Naming What You Feel (Instead of Judging It) One of the biggest things many people...
how to tame the inner critic
We all have a critical part of ourselves, I know I do. And for those of you who identify as high achievers, perfectionists or highly sensitive, the inner critic tends to be LOUD. Instead of trying to ignore it, repress it or make...
five tips for coping with holiday stress
#1: Create time for mini check-in’s with yourself throughout the day. As cliche as it sounds, it’s helpful to “name it, to tame it” by checking in with yourself and working to label your feelings. Feelings are meant to be felt after all. Keep in mind that...