Thursday, September 23, 2021

David Bedrick: When Our Efforts to Change May Serve to Keep Us Stuck or Cause Injury To Ourselves

Change efforts may fail or even cause injury to ourselves when:
1) Our attitude is self-critical - we try to change what we don’t like about ourselves without sufficient and compassionate understanding.
2) Our attitude is normative we try to make ourselves more “normal” or base our efforts on comparing ourselves with others.
3) We lack understanding of how change can begin in chaos and disturbance - we mistake disorder, breakdown, and the inability to maintain old patterns for thinking something is wrong with us.
 
David Bedrick 
 

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