Tag: shame

• Is Someone Shoulding on you? Are You Shoulding on Yourself?

  One of the words Patricia Evans talks about in her book “The Verbally Abusive Relationship” is the word “should”.  To tell someone they “should” do this, or “should” do that, is a controlling way of communicating.  Shoulding is of the ways we abuse ourselves and others.  Shoulding suggests shame if you don’t do what you…

  micheleballantyne

  August 21, 2016

  Book Reviews, Emotional Health, Physical Health

  anxiety, communication, controlling people, emotional baggage, emotional healing, emotions, Health, Health and Healing, life lessons, nerve pain, Patricia Evans, shame, shoulding, shoulding on others, shoulding yourself, stress, the verbally abusive relationship

• The Belly Brain: Exploring Emotions

  I have noticed in the last couple of years that my belly thinks . . . or rather, I should say my belly feels.  When I want to know how I am feeling, my awareness falls into my belly to see.  When my awareness is in my brain in my head, I think, I don’t…

  micheleballantyne

  July 28, 2016

  Emotional Health

  anxiety, awareness, belly, belly brain, belly chakra, book review, center, core, education, emily ruff, emotional healing, emotions, florida school of holistic living, focusing, Health, Health and Healing, life lessons, navel shakra, shame, stress, the florida school of holistic living, Tom Brown Jr., trackerschool

• Conversation With Darkness

  I sat on the wooden steps of my back porch.  Though the day was sunny and warm, the  feeling of darkness inside me was consuming.  The feeling was that of anger, fear, and hatred, but mostly hatred.  I wondered if the darkness was the influence of some evil spirit, or if it was a part…

  micheleballantyne

  July 27, 2016

  Emotional Health, Stories

  anger, dark emotions, education, emotional healing, emotions, fear, hatred, healing, Health, Health and Healing, life lessons, love yourself, loving yourself, negative emotions, sacred question, sacred questions, shame, Tom Brown Jr., trackerschool

• How This Illness Served Me

  I scheduled an appointment with a therapist about a week ago (if I am suffering from conversion disorder, therapy is key in recovery) and one of the things she said to me before we got off the phone was, “I also do medical hypnotism which I think could help you get better.”  My first reaction…

  micheleballantyne

  June 20, 2016

  Emotional Health

  anxiety, authenticity, change, emotional healing, emotions, excuses, fear, freedom, guilt, Health, Health and Healing, illness, joy, life, life changes, life changing, life lessons, mental health, shame, stress

• Tracking Your Emotions.

  Tracking intense emotions . . . . . ..   . … .  .. . .   . ..   . ..   . ..  . … . In my last post I made this brash statement: “Understanding how shame is affecting me, and understanding how shame began when I was young and how I…

  micheleballantyne

  April 3, 2015

  Emotional Health

  brene brown, emotional baggage, emotional healing, emotions, Health and Healing, karl direske, shame, tracking, wilderness fusion

• DARING GREATLY versus SHAME ON ME!

  Shame on me . . . OR NOT!     “Daring Greatly”! I’ve been reading Brene Brown’s book called Daring Greatly.  Brown is a shame researcher and her book is hitting home with me, big time!  I even dreamed last night about all the ways I feel shame.  Let’s see, there’s the mother in  me,…

  micheleballantyne

  March 30, 2015

  Book Reviews, Emotional Health

  brene brown, disconnect, disconnecting, emotions, guilt, Health and Healing, karl direske, shame, wilderness fusion