VIDEO: Choose to think and feel differently to heal

Awareness is a great start to healing. Taking action is the next necessary step. Once we recognise the voice, and the content of that voice – how all the shoulds, ‘ought to’s’, musts might browbeat us daily.



When we realise these judgements, opinions, viewpoints might not even feel congruent to our true selves and that we might realise, these belong to someone else, these come from a parent or a former teacher perhaps, then we have agency. Then we have power. Then we get to choose.

Do we keep on beating ourselves up? Or do we choose differently? We can challenge, with compassion, all these inner statements, views, judgements that might hurt us. We can change our mind! We can decide to think and as a consequence feel differently, about ourselves, about our world.

This is where healing occurs. When we recognise the patterns we repeat over and over again, and use our recognition, to do differently, to think differently, independently of our former caregivers.