Dear Luke:

“Just at the moment feels like she has all the benefits and I’m still scrambling in the dirt. I guess for the moment”- if you told me that she had a good childhood, where she felt safe and fast forward, she is an adult woman with a care-free attitude, I might have believed that she is an emotionally healthy woman who doesn’t worry and has this happy-go-lucky kind of life.

I don’t think it is possible, at least not without long term healing, for a person growing up in a very troubled home, to be happy-go-lucky as an adult, to move easily and successfully “away from painful things and goes immediately to the new”- I tend to think that a person finds the same-old-same-old in “the new”.

I wish you good work with your “mindful self-compassion workbook”, and do  post here anytime you want to  post.

anita