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If you've ever felt genuinely worried that your emotions might overwhelm you, or that if you started feeling things you wouldn't be able to stop, then this post is for you. Let's start with why we push emotions down in the first place. For a lot of us, strong emotions have felt — at some point — genuinely unsafe. Maybe the feeling itself was too big, too much. Maybe there was no one around who could help us hold it. Or maybe we quietly picked up the message that other people

In Part 1, we looked at the idea that all children have core emotional needs, and what can happen when those needs aren’t met in a “good enough” way. In this post, we’re shifting the focus to adulthood—specifically, how those early experiences can impact your ability to recognise your needs, and what it looks like to begin getting them met. If you’re doing Schema Therapy, it’s likely you’re hearing the word “needs” a lot. But for many people, when it comes to their own life,

If you're doing Schema Therapy, it's likely you're hearing the word 'needs' a lot. It's a small word, but it has a big backstory....

The guilt-inducing critic shows up as an overdeveloped sense of guilt and responsibility in adulthood. There can be different childhood...