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Dear Anita,
I read your message three times. To separate the thought from the emotion involved in the thought is an exercise I am surely going to do. It is simple and at the same time, difficult. I guess it will demand kindness from myself to myself. Your example was very clear. I am so grateful!
I can see a consequence of my attitude: It makes me more vulnerable to people with a dominating profile. It has happened with a colleague of mine. She criticized a decision I made and I felt terrible. I was not wrong and time proved it, but for a long time, I doubted myself, I was afraid I had made a serious mistake. I see now that it was the shadow of the inner critic…
I have a stepmother and she was very hard on me and my brothers and sister when we were young children. Guess it has something to do with me being vulnerable like this.
So good to talk to you ..
Flávia