Are you too hard on yourself?
What are we reading this week?
This article, from Reach Out Recovery, is worth a read as it fleshes out what the priorities in life can be when it comes to good long-term mental health and wellbeing. The piece stresses how children’s emotional health is more crucial than any test result achieved in school. How a child feels waking up in the morning or going to bed at night is more important than a grade on a piece of paper. Have a read and please us know your thoughts at I Am Here.
What are we looking at this week?
We are looking at the visual from Susan David, Ph.D. – a Psychologist at the Harvard Medical School – which urges us to concentrate on progress rather than perfection. We like the tagline at the bottom: ‘Make music, not applause’, which encourages us to do things for the love of it, rather than for the validation of others. What do you think? A nice way to approach life?
What are we thinking about this week?
This week we are watching a video called ‘Self-Hatred & Anxiety’ from The School of Life. The reason we may feel more anxious than we should lies in an unusual place: Self-hatred. In this video, we learn that one strategy of calming down is to learn to unpack the origins of our self-suspicion. This then lays the ground for a more self-loving and compassionate future.
The video talks about the reason we may feel more anxious than we should. This lies in an unusual place: Self-hatred. If we think of ourselves as ‘bad’, then surely bad things must happen to bad people.
