Supporting Mental Health and Emotional Well Being
My client is concerned her son aged 25 has a new girlfriend with Borderline Personality Disorder, and wonders what should she say to protect him from getting hurt? When our children grow up, they don’t stop being our children — but our role in their lives must evolve. One of the most challenging transitions for …
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You create your values to protect yourself from your fears 01/21 It would be fair to say our values are the boundaries we have adopted to fit in and be accepted by society. They are socially constructed and as such do not belong to us but our tribe. The twin fears of fight or flee …
We live in a sea of expectations 11/17 Children feel comfortable when they behave in the way they feel they are expected to behave. That is to say in their childhood interpretation of the expectations of their care givers. And they develop unconscious coping strategies to gain approval and praise. But when children become adults …