Supporting Mental Health and Emotional Well Being
Maybe your partner accuses you of not listening, even though you are. You try to explain your point, and they get more upset. You apologise, but they say you’re being sarcastic. You try silence, and they accuse you of shutting down. You feel stuck, helpless, and misunderstood — like every word you utter is a …
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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 …