Dear Charity:

Regarding your brother who made fun of you, and was rude to you repeatedly, and who- with his wife- rejected you, you wrote: “Almost like I cannot allow myself to be happy until I am accepted by them”- part of you believes that your brother was right to make fun of you, and that he and his wife were right to reject you, that is, you believe that you were and are worthy of ridicule and rejection. When a person believes such things about oneself, it is impossible to feel joy and peace for longer than a moment here and there.

Do you know of the term core beliefs, the deep beliefs formed in our minds when we were children?

anita

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