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Tag Archives: shame

Are You Hiding?

“The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.” ~ Bernard M. Baruch “How can I get this pain to go away?” This is often what clients who seek my help ask me in a first session. Because they have never learned to manage and learn from their pain, they want to...

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Are You Abandoning Yourself?

Do you believe that feelings of abandonment are coming from others abandoning you – or do they come from self-abandonment? When we think about abandonment, we generally think about being left by someone. But abandonment is about leaving someone we are responsible for – a child or an old or sick person who cannot take...

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Do You Chase When Someone Withdraws?

A member of our website asked this question in our advice section: I’ve read several of the articles on the site, but have not seen anything mentioned about “chasing” after someone who is pulling away in a relationship. That has to be a form of protection against deeper feelings, though, right? If someone is pulling...

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The Law of Love

I have learned over my 43 years of counseling that no one heals without a personal connection to a spiritual source of Guidance. William was struggling with issues of shame and depression. He had struggled with feelings of insecurity and jealousy most of his life, despite years of inner work. While he intellectually knew that...

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“I Don’t Deserve to be Loved”

Have you ever said to yourself, “The reason God doesn’t love me is I don’t deserve to be loved?”  Have you ever looked inside to discover why you might not be loving to yourself and answered with, “I’m not worthy of love”? I hear this all the time from my clients. It is often one...

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