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Our combination of genes, skills, personalities and experiences makes each of us wonderfully unique. We're all human though, and we share broad themes of experience. There are familar ways our minds try to protect us, patterns that get us stuck, or parts of being human that don't always make sense until someone names them.
Our combination of genes, skills, personalities and experiences makes each of us wonderfully unique. We're all human though, and we share broad themes of experience. There are familar ways our minds try to protect us, patterns that get us stuck, or parts of being human that don't always make sense until someone names them.
I've gathered reflections from concepts and experiences I've seen show up time and again, in my own life, and in the therapy room. I've grouped them by theme, as entry points for exploration, rather than rigid categories.
I've gathered reflections from concepts and experiences I've seen show up time and again, in my own life, and in the therapy room. I've grouped them by theme, as entry points for exploration, rather than rigid categories.
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We often describe ourselves with shorthand fixed traits. I'm a "kind" person, a "brave" person, an "anxious" person, a "lazy" person. But if we understand ourselves as more like a process, some who something shifts. We're no longer set in stone.
From the outside, perfectionism looks like precision. From the inside, it feels like a finish line that keeps moving. What if we called it what it really is: never good enough-ism.
The way a message is communicated can really impact the meaning. Self-love is often conflated with being narsicistic, self-care with self-indulgence and marketing would have us believe they are things can just buy, and keep buying. There are better definitions.
If you recognise something of yourself in any of the writing here, maybe a moment of recognition is all it needs to be. Sometimes acknowledgement is enough to shift something in us.
If you recognise something of yourself in any of the writing here, maybe a moment of recognition is all it needs to be. Sometimes acknowledgement is enough to shift something in us.
If one of these ideas lands with you, and you're curious to explore how it shows up in your own life, where it came from, and what might be useful for you specifically — I'd welcome the chance to talk.
If one of these ideas lands with you, and you're curious to explore how it shows up in your own life, where it came from, and what might be useful for you specifically — I'd welcome the chance to talk.
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