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Do you sometimes look back and feel as if you have wasted your life caretaking others or trying to get others to take care of you? Very often, in my work with my clients and with people who attend my workshops and Intensives, once they understand that they have been abandoning themselves, they feel . . . → Read More: Making Peace With Lost Time Learn what you can do when you don’t feel appreciated by your partner.
Chris wrote this question for one of my relationship webinars: “What do you do when you feel you are not loved for who you are? How do you accept your relationship when you don’t feel appreciated, or you think it’s your fault for what happens in your life? How can you change your relationship? How can you make it better?” There are two ways of dealing with this issue. Explore Within Are you appreciating yourself? If you are judging yourself and telling yourself that ‘it’s your fault’ for what happens in your life, then it sounds like you are not seeing or appreciating yourself. Frequently, others treat us the way we treat ourselves. Do you like yourself? Do you love yourself? Do you value yourself? These are the kinds of questions you need to ask yourself. Continue reading “I’m Not Appreciated”       What is loving to yourself and others is not always clear. This article presents some important questions to consider. . . . → Read More: Can You Love Others?  Comments are closed  Parenting, Relationships, Self Improvement & Personal Growth  care-taking, caring, child, codependence, Inner Bonding, love, Margaret Paul, Parenting, personal responsibility, Relationships, what is loving Do you get drained or fulfilled in giving to others? Discover why! Giving to others can be one of the most fulfilling experiences in life, or it can be one of the most draining. What makes the difference? The difference has to do with WHY you are giving to others. Giving From A Full Heart When we give from a full heart, we are giving because we are so filled up with love that it is overflowing, and we receive great joy in giving to others. We are not giving to get anything back because we don’t need anything back. We don’t need anything back because we have taken 100% responsibility for loving ourselves – for thinking the loving thoughts and taking the loving actions that make us feel worthy, lovable, peaceful and joyful within. Continue reading Giving To Others: Draining Or Fulfilling?   You have more of an effect on the world than you know! “Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What would happen if we each learned to take 100% responsibility for our own feelings and needs – learning to attend to our feelings with compassion for ourselves, and extending that compassion to others? What would happen if each of us were conscious enough to sweep in front of our own door – which means we would be conscious enough not to dump our filth on the rest of the world? I love to imagine the possibilities! Continue reading Your Own Inner Work Affects the Whole World! Do you understand the difference between self-pity and self-compassion? There is a vast difference between feeling sorry for yourself and feeling kindness toward yourself. Self-Pity When you see yourself as a victim, you indulge in self-pity. You are a bottomless pit of misery, and you may find yourself crying endless victim tears. You might say things like:
Self-pity might serve two purposes: Continue reading Self-Pity or Self-Compassion |
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