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What you Resist Persists

What you Resist Persists

“Why do I resist journalling/meditation when I know it’s good for me?” Resistance is normal. I've been doing this work for over a year now, and I still resist. Resistance happens because we know that when we journal difficult stuff often comes up. Our default has...

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internal Stress, Personality Traits and Self-compassion

internal Stress, Personality Traits and Self-compassion

How are you talking to yourself? We get so used to our negative patterns of thought and self-talk, that we are often unaware of how much internal stress we are piling on ourselves. Certain personality traits can make us more vulnerable to internal stress If you have a...

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embracing guilt

embracing guilt

Guilt is a hard emotion to feel. Most of us will do anything to avoid it. People pleasing, perfectionism, and self-criticism are just some of the ways we try to protect ourselves from having to feel guilty about things. But guilt means we are taking care of our own...

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Self-love and self-compassion

Self-love and self-compassion

Self-compassion is the ability to be kind to ourselves. And it is a crucially important part of healing from mindbody symptoms.  Self-compassion meditations were one of the ways that I helped to develop this sense of kindness and compassion towards myself. If I had to...

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