Dear Shirley, Earth Angel:

I just typed, submitted and lost my post to you! Ahhh!

I wrote that your inner bully has more time than your parents have to criticize you, since they are sometimes busy with the restaurant, paying bills and so forth. And the inner bully is not busy otherwise. Also, the inner bully has full access to your eyes and ears so it sees everything you see and hears everything you hear and so it has a lot of material available for its criticism. Your parents don’t have that kind of access to you. Therefore, the inner bully, unfortunately does a …better job at criticizing.

But you are making it, Shirley, you are defeating the inner bully the only possible way: moment by moment, day by day, persistently, firmly, patiently.

And now I will copy this post before submitting just in case…

anita