The Psychotherapy Practice of Lynn Chauvin-Bezinque, MS, LCAT, MPA

Two emotions researchers. One podcast. A total feelings frenzy of the best kind! Dr. Marc Brackett is such a great teacher. I think y'all will love this conversation. Listen to the full episode here: https://bit.ly/3enlBhm

Books on Co-Dependency: Facing Codependence, by Pia Mellody The New Codependency - Melody Beattie ... The Human Magnet Syndrome: The Codependent Narcissist Trap by Ross Rosenberg Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself Prodependence by Robert Weiss Psychopath Free: Recovering from Emotionally Abusive Relationships with Narcissists, Sociopaths, and Other Toxic People by Jackson MacKenzie Codependency For Dummies Courage to cure Codependency by Leah Clarke The Disease to Please Codependents' Guide to the Twelve Steps

"Forgiveness is the act of admitting that we are like other people" Martha Minow, author of When Law Should Forgive. She adds that "We are all imperfect in one way or another". She is referencing forgiving others however this comment helps me understand why it so hard to forgive ourselves. It requires us to recognize that we are not unique and different from everyone else. We are imperfect, like everyone else. It suggests we should hold ourselves to the same standards we ho...ld others to. But this often seems unreasonable to us; we should have known better, been smarter, done more, and tried harder than anyone else. We can have great compassion for anyone, other than ourselves. I believe our inner critic often hold us to a much more unforgiving, higher standard of behavior than we would ever hold others to. As part of that, we punish ourselves more harshly than we would ever consider punishing another person who did the same thing. The price of forgiveness is accepting we imperfect - like everyone else.