Tag: self-esteem
-
How To Deal With Criticism: Discard Praise
For most of us, criticism stings and burns. I couldn’t count how many times I reacted negatively, sometimes aggressively, sometimes with embarassment and shame, to honest feedback from someone close to me… I do so less and less, although I still occasionally fall back into my old ways of being. I even remember, months ago,…
-
The Masks We Wear
We all have different personalities in that our traits (so called qualities and flaws) appear more or less throughout our daily interactions with other people. In this sense we are all unique. But we all share something in common and this is really what I want to talk about. It is that we all wear…
-
You Don’t Need To Be Who You Think You Are
What do you tell yourself and others about who you are? What do you tell yourself and others about what you “have always done”, what you “have always been”, how you “have always reacted”? I wonder if you have ever paid attention to the words you use to describe yourself, your identity. Both when you…
BEN DEPRAZ-BRENNINKMEIJER 