In this post I’d like to … return to the idea and the phenomenon of the toxic inner critic. … The ‘inner’ in ‘inner critic’ can be understood in two ways, hence the title of this article. On the one hand, “the critic” is a mental phenomenon, although… Continue reading Describing the Critic: The Inner Critic Is More Than Just the Inner Critic
In this post, I write about four processes that deserve more attention and are applicable to regular life, to philosophy as something lived, and to recovery from Complex PTSD (Cptsd). We might, I think, refer to these “grieving” processes as “emotional processing” processes. Pete Walker, however, is employing the term “grieving” in a somewhat broad sense. It doesn’t only relate to death in the literal … Continue reading Pete Walker’s Four Grieving Processes: Angering, Crying, Verbal Ventilating, and Passively Feeling
A few weeks ago I posed the question: How can gratitude go wrong? Today I’ll suggest some answers of my own. I’ll also bring in some observations by author and psychotherapist Pete Walker. Shaming (Wrongfully) Accusations of ingratitude, or assertions that one ought to be grateful (and is not), can be used to shame someone abusively or inappropriately. Statements such as “You should (just) be … Continue reading Gratitude Shaming: Using the Idea of Gratitude to Harm
This post will list and explain five key defining features of Complex PTSD, and point you toward the work of Pete Walker. This of course is not medical advice. Complex PTSD, by the way, is one example of what Johann Hari classes as a psychological cause of depression, within his division of depression causes into social-environmental, psychological, and biological. See my post Non-Pharmaceutical Anti-Depressants and … Continue reading Pete Walker’s Five Key Features of Complex PTSD
