Living Authentically

Evan on October 18th, 2011

Roshani’s difficulty with living an authentic life is childhood trauma. She put it this way: It is still difficult for me to live life feeling accepted as a woman that has received in the childhood this TRAUMA …with all the consequences in my present life!!!LOVE! Roshani   This post is going to deal with healing [...]

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Evan on October 13th, 2011

Roshani’s difficulty with living an authentic life is the effects of past trauma. She put it this way: It is still difficult for me to live life feeling accepted as a woman that has received in the childhood this TRAUMA …with all the consequences in my present life!!!LOVE! Roshani This post is the second part [...]

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Evan on October 11th, 2011

For Roshani the biggest difficulty with living an authentic life is the impact of past trauma. This is the way that she put it. It is still difficult for me to live life feeling accepted as a woman that has received in the childhood this TRAUMA …with all the consequences in my present life!!!LOVE! Roshani [...]

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Evan on September 21st, 2011

Catherine’s difficulty with living an authentic life was avoiding people. In the last post I explained what I thought might be the reason that someone might fear people in general. In previous posts I explained why someone might feel shame towards people in general. All of which is preliminary to the most important question:   [...]

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Evan on September 19th, 2011

Hi folks, I’m back to about 80% healthy and recovering quickly from my cold. So can now continue my response to Catherine’s comment. Catherine’s comment about living with authenticity was about wanting to be with others. She put it this way: Please would you consider writing something on people who mostly avoid other people, particularly [...]

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Evan on September 15th, 2011

Catherine’s greatest difficulty with living an authentic life is avoiding other people. She put it this way: Please would you consider writing something on people who mostly avoid other people, particularly how they could start changing that?   The two biggest reasons I know for avoiding others are shame and fear. In the previous post [...]

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Evan on September 13th, 2011

Catherine’s greatest difficulty with living an authentic life is avoiding other people. She asked: Please would you consider writing something on people who mostly avoid other people, particularly how they could start changing that? My first thought in response to this was: Who says you have to be around other people? Hermits aren’t valued much [...]

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Evan on September 10th, 2011

For Barbara her greatest difficulty with living an authentic life is being highly emotional. Barbara puts it this way. I think one of the pains I have suffered the majority of my life is my high emotionality, not knowing exactly what to do with it all. I guess a good way to put it is [...]

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Evan on September 8th, 2011

For Barbara her greatest difficulty with living an authentic life is being highly emotional. Barbara puts it this way. I think one of the pains I have suffered the majority of my life is my high emotionality, not knowing exactly what to do with it all. I guess a good way to put it is [...]

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I planned to answer Harriet’s comment in two parts. But have found that I needed more space. So here is part 3 of 2. This was Harriet’s comment in response to my question about the greatest difficulty in living an authentic life in this post. My biggest problem with being authentic is my fear of [...]

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