When we get trapped by blame
For most of my life I didn’t want to take responsibility for my emotional experience in life.
For most of my life I didn’t want to take responsibility for my emotional experience in life.
Processing the emotions you feel around your family
Shame is an emotion that actually has a healthy purpose – guiding our behavior so that we stay in connection with our group, and our caregivers. So we don’t do things against the group. It also plays an important role in enacting boundaries and guiding us to adhere to our personal values.
Hello beautiful one, Many of us have found ourselves highly emotionally activated around our families. Maybe it comes in the form of intense dread at seeing them, or a non-specific sensation of being unsettled, or we feel anxiety about being around them and are hoping they don’t say certain things. Maybe we have some simmering […]
One lesson I felt I really learnt when my kids were little was the oppressive power of expectation.