It's true that life sucks at times and we experience huge amounts of crap, sometimes all at the same time. But when we can change the emotional blueprint that somehow we can't cope, or that we personally deserve it, you will find a greater capacity to deal with it when needed, and let it go when you don't.

The 'emotional' backpack is a metaphor I use in therapy with clients... I thought mine was empty but turns out there are hidden compartments?! Maybe you will relate to this...

As a child, we have an underdeveloped 'logical' sense of self, so often, there is just this critical thinking that is deployed and developed to (literally) keep us alive, because without adults, we wouldn't survive... so how does the inner critic help?

Having had one absent parent, and one who exhibits high amounts of narcissistic traits, birthdays were never really about me...

From a former 'self hater', who healed her relationship to herself and is now a therapist being others do the same...

Ah, boundaries; a complicated yet very simple thing that becomes a barrier to living (and loving) our lives & unleashing 'who we truly are'.