Do you always feel like you are not as worthy as your friend, sibling, classmate, or any other acquaintance? Or do you always put yourself down for your looks, career preferences, job, and other decisions you made for yourself? Do you always call yourself a loser? Or, do you always blame yourself for every unsuitable [...]
The personal shadow develops in everyone from childhood. It encompasses thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that we do not accept. The reason is because they are incompatible with the social norms and the “should be” of the imposed ideal personality. We banish qualities that do not fit our ideal image. The ego, and the shadow are [...]
In our daily life, we find ourselves overloaded with demands derived from different stressful situations: labor and economic problems, exams, arguments with our partner or family, inflation, a decrease in salary, lack of work, etc., All of these situations demand from us a great effort of adaptation, also generating conflicts with our relatives and with [...]
Why would you not know that you are good enough? Feeling "not good enough" is more common than you would think. As a new mental health professional, I was surprised to find out that more than 90% of my clients expressed "I don't feel good enough," "Why am I not good enough, "Am I good [...]
