Caroline Casey is one of my true heroes. Enjoy -
Caroline Casey is one of my true heroes. Enjoy -
Folks, this is where the rubber meets the road. Your rubber-soled shoes. Your road! In this post I’m focusing on Practice #3, the practice of taking care of yourself and making changes. Just like Practice #1 and Practice #2, this one is meant to be integrated with the others—particularly the practice of therapeutic work. In [...]
In this post I’m focusing on Practice #2, the practice of doing therapeutic work. This practice is meant to be integrated with the other steps—ahem, like, started right along with Practice #1 (not after anything is ‘perfected’ ). The Four Practices to Raise Yourself Up #1 The Practice of Learning Who You Are & What [...]
In this post I’m focusing on Practice #1, the practice of discovery, and taking a deep, deliberate look at who you are in the context of what happened in your past. The Four Practices to Raise Yourself Up! 1. The Practice of Learning Who You Are & What Happened 2. The Practice of Therapeutic Work [...]
When you’re in emotional pain, you want to know—is there a cure? Am I a puppet of my family or an independent agent with choice? Will I ever feel better—like, happy? Will I ever stop crying? Will I grow out of this and, promise me, not repeat the past? Not repeating the past is really, [...]
It’s a new year, right? New year, new you, new habits, new goodness and trying harder, right? (Just making sure.) So, let’s get down to adult child basics. Some simple stretches. OK? First, a disclaimer: I make a point not to endorse twelve-step groups as part of GWNI (just as twelve-step groups take care not [...]
Trust yourself to catch youself. You know how it works when people parachute? They’re harnessed to a device that facilitates their chute — their gentle drift down, down, down? (Chute is French for “fall.”) A quick linguistics course: the prefix Para- is attached to words we’ve taken from Greek (mostly, but there are some French ones [...]
Respect begets respect, right? Have you ever felt powerless over your reaction to someone, got defensive, and behaved like a child for no other reason than you were somehow triggered by the other person's tone of voice or posture? (We all have.) And were you aggravated with yourself because you let the other person [...]
Growing up as an adult child requires 3 steps:
1. Processing your pain
2. Learning about healthy living
3. Putting new behaviors into practice
Each of these three aspects will deliver you into your own version of true adulthood.
Never give up on yourself. Well, for an hour, or a day here and there, that’s fine, but you know what I mean–don’t ever commit to giving up on yourself. No matter how imperfect we feel, no matter how painfully, obviously in-progress we are, our fight for our true selves must go on. We must [...]
