Self-Care for Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: Honor Your Emotions, Nurture Your Self, and Live with Confidence

decide to stop and fully investigate the experience. I inquire, “Okay, what is it that’s really bothering me?” I recognize immediately that this embarrassing thought keeps reliving itself in my mind. Then I ask, “Am I adding any resistance to this experience?” After a few moments of quiet contemplation, the answer comes intuitively—yes. I can feel

Understanding why the nervous system becomes dysregulated – and realising that stress reactions take place outside our conscious control – can help normalise these behaviours and explain why so many of us feel alone when we’re in a crowded room, why we put substances into our body to numb our natural physiological responses, why we lash out, run aw

So many high-achieving people get trapped into obsessing about the external world and neglecting their internal world. When you’ve been suppressing things for so long, you can’t just decide to stop all at once. Learning to listen to yourself takes a long time. I used to think that I always had to justify everything to myself—that I needed to be com

If you can pay attention every single time you are hit or stung with feeling, when you feel that weight suddenly fall inside your chest—“Oh. I forgot. I can’t sing, I’m not good at it”—stop and examine it. Did you put that there? Who did?