Finding Purpose
As human beings, we have an innate drive to seek out something beyond our basic biological needs. We also want and need purpose.
As human beings, we have an innate drive to seek out something beyond our basic biological needs. We also want and need purpose.
While you are writing, you are using a part of your brain that is different from the part of the brain where you are listening or speaking. Sometimes it is a way of disconnecting.
The journey to self-compassion lies in developing greater tolerance of the body’s defense mechanisms that show up as defensiveness.
Spiritual bypassing is a coping mechanism, intentional or otherwise, that "protects" the ego from anxiety as an elaborate form of denial and avoidance.