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The Truth about Your Inner Critic

September 11, 2014 By Angela Watrous

Do you spur on your inner critic, hoping that if you can just be harder on yourself, you can liberate yourself from your pain and inhabit your life more fully? Or do you try to stifle, ignore, or exile your inner critic, believing that the key to happiness is to just think positively and overpower […]

Filed Under: Collaboration, Companionship, Compassion and Self-Compassion, Domination, Coercion, Shoulds, Interpersonal Neurobiology, Resonant Empathy, Secure Attachment, Uncategorized, Warm Resonant Support

While the Past Cannot Be Altered, Our Hearts Can Be Restored

June 28, 2013 By Angela Watrous

Heather Sellers experienced so much pain in her relationship with her father that she disconnected from him for decades. Then, in the last year of his life, when he was placed in a nursing home after a debilitating stroke, she began having weekly Skype calls with him: “Those conversations don’t cancel out the years of […]

Filed Under: Ancestors, Companionship, Compassion and Self-Compassion, Empathy, Intergenerational Trauma, Secure Attachment, Uncategorized, Warm Resonant Support

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