Showing posts with label inner child. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inner child. Show all posts
Friday, October 28, 2022

The Joy of Becoming More Playful As An Adult

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Considering how stressful adulthood can be, learning to be to more playful is one of the best things you can do to improve your emotional we...
Wednesday, July 6, 2016

What's the Connection Between Fear of Getting Hurt and Blaming Communication?

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Fear of getting hurt is often connected to blaming communication (see my article: Fear of Intimacy Can Lead to Fault-Finding, Which Can Dest...
Monday, June 16, 2014

Having Compassion for the Child That You Were

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In a prior article, Psychotherapy and Compassionate Self Acceptance , I discussed some of the challenges that people often face when they st...
Friday, April 5, 2013

Inconsolable Grief for a Mother's Death in an Enmeshed Mother-Daughter Relationship

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I've written about enmeshed families in prior blog posts (see link below).  In this blog post, I'd like to address the issue of inco...
Thursday, April 4, 2013

Overcoming Feelings of Helplessness Related to Early Trauma

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Many people who were helpless as children due to childhood trauma continue to feel helpless when they're adults.  As adults, they often ...
Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Are You Living Your Life Feeling Trapped By Your Childhood History?

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It's not unusual for adults to live their lives feeling trapped by circumstances they experienced as a child that no longer apply to the...
Monday, January 7, 2013

When Our Emotional Attachment to Our Possessions Becomes a Problem For Our Loved Ones

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During the last few years, there have been many more articles, books, and even a TV program about hoarding.  There have even been articles a...
Saturday, December 22, 2012

Is Your Envy Ruining Your Relationships?

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Envy is defined as the emotionally painful feeling you have when you perceive that someone has something that you want and don't have, w...
Monday, December 10, 2012

Overcoming Fantasies of Being Rescued

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Who hasn't gone through a life crisis, at one time or another, and fantasized that someone would come along and rescue them from all the...
Thursday, December 6, 2012

Psychotherapy: Making the Unconscious Conscious

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Often, when clients begin psychotherapy, they discover that there are many aspects of themselves that they are unaware of, especially if the...