Posts made in October, 2020

Forgive yourself

Posted by Beth on Oct 1, 2020

I love Martha Beck, a coach and author whose Sunday ‘Gathering Room’ I can recommend on Facebook where she gives helpful tips on how to navigate the world, mainly internal! Last week she spoke about a new book by Stephen Mitchell about self-forgiveness (not out yet) and the technique he describes for how to do it. Here it is: Find a thought about yourself that feels bad. Let it know you know it is a lie (anything that feels bad or restrictive is not the truth of who you are). Thank it for appearing to you so that you have to now see through it to the truth. Reverse the thought (find it’s opposite). Ask yourself for examples of how this opposite thought...