Hello All,
Hope you’re doing well this week. I’ve been working hard and studying French, (my hobby du jour) like crazy lately. I’m also enjoying reading Liane Moriaty’s Apples Never Fall, having smashed out a beautiful read of Mrs Harris Goes to Paris previously. The latter is a gem of a story that highlights human kindness, and devotion to a personal dream, not for the sake of success, money or fame, but for love of beauty.
The first is about families and trauma and the effects our early stories can have on us, even years down the track. That theme is relevant to this week’s question, emailed to me by a client in one simple sentence, after a psychology session:
How do I shake myself out of my self-esteem lowering stories I was brought up with, when they are part of me?
It’s not only a great question but one that almost everybody asks themselves in some form at some point in life - How do I get free of the limitations I maybe didn’t even realise I had until now?
Most of us reach points where we have to choose to believe in what we’ve inherited, or reject it if it’s unhelpful. So how do we do approach that process?
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