Self-Criticism Disguised as Self-Improvement

How trauma responses can masquerade as growth and why your “high standards for yourself” might be an internalized abuse strategy Photo by Elif from Pexels “Self-compassion is not self-indulgence. Self-criticism is not self-improvement. We cannot hate ourselves...

The Flop Response

The fifth trauma response that might explain the moments you cannot remember Photo by Raj Rana on Unsplash “The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. …” — H.P. Lovecraft In this...