“Neediness and insecurity can’t be cured by reassurance” courtesy of Meredith Farmer “Please, clouds, don’t rain!” Not going to work, is it? And neither will trying to reassure someone who just can’t be reassured. They will go on fretting, no matter how you plead. Chronic insecurity in your relationship is a major problem. Why? Because [...]
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How email, text and instant messaging is making insecurity in relationships worse “Are you 100% sure about that?” courtesy of sean dreilinger “I feel so insecure! All the bloody time! I keep on at him – if he doesn’t text me back within 10 minutes I feel like I’m going mad. I know I’m crowding [...]
Downloads Unwrapped – April 2012 The journey is more than the destination Once upon a time a student was told by his wise old teacher that he was too serious. The wise old teacher knew what his disciple needed to do – he must seek out “the happiest man in the world”. So off the [...]
We posted this a few years back on the Uncommon Knowledge blog, but I thought you might need a laugh. So the above audio is an outtake from when Mark and Jill were recording the Powerful Reframes CD, a training CD for therapists. If you’re a therapist, you’ll know how important effective reframing is when [...]
How I overcame my own shyness, by Mark Tyrrell “Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people”.Andre Dubus “Shyness makes us feel invisible and too visible at one and the same time” courtesy of Nickolai Kashirin I used to be shy. [...]