Body Vitality, Safety, & Self-Image
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Chronic Illness Without Turning Healing Into Blame
People with chronic illness are often invited to search for the emotional reason, the hidden benefit, or the thing they are doing wrong. Inquiry can be useful. Used carelessly, it turns suffering into an accusation: if I were healthier inside, I would already be well. A symptom can have biological, environmental, structural, traumatic, emotional, and…
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Dealing with Rejection!
Rejection is a big block to moving forward in our power. Dealing with Rejection: He Doesn’t Want To See Me! (with Inner Tapping) Watch the video or read and tap along. Or both, if you like! We’ve all been hurt some time. The insecurity, the feeling of rejection when someone doesn’t want to see you…
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Change the Perspective That Keeps You at War With Your Body
Body judgments often arrive disguised as facts: this size is unacceptable, that feature proves laziness, aging must be hidden, confidence must wait until the form changes. When a belief surrounds us culturally, it can be as invisible as water to a fish. We do not experience it as one perspective among many. We experience it…
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Tapping on Body Image, Shame, and Self-Confidence
by Cathy Vartuli You can watch the video and tap along, or read and tap… whichever you prefer! What’s your body image like? Most of us are so used to feeling a particular way about our body and how we walk through the world that we don’t even notice that we might have a negative…
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What’s The Number One Way You Can Create Self-Love NOW?
Most of us would love to feel more lovable. We’d like to feel more valuable, and more deserving of all the good things that could happen to us. It’s wonderful when other people give us affirmations and reassurance. A lot of us look for relationships to give us those good feelings. There isn’t anything wrong…
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When One Part Wants to Be Big and Another Wants to Be Small
One part may want to be big, powerful, visible, and impossible to dismiss. Another may want to be cute, small, protected, and free from responsibility. A body goal can become impossible when it is expected to satisfy both sides at once. Internal conflict does not mean we are confused beyond repair. It means different parts…