Transcript: Conditional Love and Parentification – Understanding the Roots of People-Pleasing “Okay, if you’re a people-pleaser, then it’s very likely that you’ve experienced some form of conditional love. One very common example is parentification of the child, where the caregiver…
The Reverse Guilt-Shame Dynamic in People-Pleasing Many people-pleasers describe a deep sense of shame that drives their overextension to accommodate others. It’s almost the reverse of what should happen. Normally, if we see someone in need, we might feel moved…
A Practical Guide to Life Buddha took a practical approach to his teachings, which he delivered by talking to people with real problems. He approached it as you would approach a problem that you face. First, you need to know…
Lockdown has brought a massive change in routine for almost all of us. Normality for most of us involved; getting up when the alarm goes off, packing the kids off to school, grabbing a coffee on the commute to work,…
The concept of the conscious, the subconscious and the unconscious There have been sophisticated theories of mind that have undoubtedly contained the concepts of conscious and subconscious for over two thousand years, most notably in Buddhist philosophy[1]. Greek philosophers also…
With the incredible rise in popularity of mindfulness practice, some are beginning to question if mindfulness is as good for you as some would have you believe. There are now various reports of adverse reactions — just exactly what is…
