Circle Audio
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Building a Safer, Friendlier Relationship with Your Body
A body can feel like an unsafe place when symptoms, accidents, tension, or repeated disappointment have made every sensation seem suspicious. What looks irrational about body trust often becomes understandable when we ask what the body expects and what this response has been trying to prevent. With body trust, the aim is not to make…
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When a Windfall Feels Scary: Gratitude, Arrogance, and Taking Care of Everyone
Extra money can bring relief and then unleash a crowd of emotional demands. Be grateful. Do not become arrogant. Do not waste it. Help everyone. Make the perfect choice. Do not enjoy it too much. Prepare for the bad thing that may follow. A windfall may be large or simply unusual for you. What matters…
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When Gratitude Feels Dangerous or Like Bragging
Gratitude is often prescribed as if it were emotionally simple. Notice what is good. Write the list. Feel thankful. Yet for some of us, appreciation immediately activates another voice: Do not get cocky. Nobody wants to hear you brag. If you show how happy you are, someone will put you in your place. Then gratitude…
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Financial Hypervigilance: Overdrawn, Extra Money, and the Economy
Financial alarm does not always match the direction of the number. An overdrawn account can trigger panic and self-blame. Unexpected extra money can trigger a different panic: spend it before it disappears, never touch it, use it perfectly, or brace because this may be the last money that ever comes. The common thread is hypervigilance.…
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Your Worth Is Not Measured by How Useful You Are
When usefulness becomes the price of worth, rest feels dangerous. Illness, pain, disability, aging, or ordinary limits can then threaten identity as much as they affect daily life. We may say, “I cannot do anything useful,” when we mean, “I am afraid I do not count if I cannot produce.” That belief adds emotional punishment…
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It’s My Fault
They’re blaming me… Responsible for their happiness… I should have known better… Waiting for his forgiveness… He said I wasn’t a good mother.
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Is It Safe To Care About Myself?
Put everyone else first… Selfish to care about myself… Better to give than receive… I can’t be abundant or I’m not a good person… Pleasure in caring for other… Do I know what my needs are?? Finding a balance.