Sometimes my inner critic has a megaphone. Like when I’m late to first grade pickup or send an email with a typo. When does your inner critic show up? When you say the wrong thing in a meeting? At breakfast when you’ve burned the toast? Or maybe you’re in a season of high stress and…
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Recent events (both near and far) have led me to question one small little word with a big bite: “hate.” My son’s school had to go into lockdown mode while we were having an outdoor celebration breakfast for his class. Nothing was going on at the school, but only a couple of blocks down the…
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There’s a story I tell myself about my childhood. It goes something like this: I was a pretty easy kid. My parents loved each other. My siblings and I had some spats here and there, but nothing too out of the ordinary. We laughed a lot. There were Saturday morning cartoons, tons of playing together…
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Taming and Learning From the Voice in Your Head
Sometimes my inner critic has a megaphone. Like when I’m late to first grade pickup or send an email with a typo. When does your inner critic show up? When you say the wrong thing in a meeting? At breakfast when you’ve burned the toast? Or maybe you’re in a season of high stress and…
How We Learn to Hate and How We Can Stop
Recent events (both near and far) have led me to question one small little word with a big bite: “hate.” My son’s school had to go into lockdown mode while we were having an outdoor celebration breakfast for his class. Nothing was going on at the school, but only a couple of blocks down the…
Understanding the Stories We Tell Ourselves About Our Childhood
There’s a story I tell myself about my childhood. It goes something like this: I was a pretty easy kid. My parents loved each other. My siblings and I had some spats here and there, but nothing too out of the ordinary. We laughed a lot. There were Saturday morning cartoons, tons of playing together…