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Would you ever talk to a friend that way? No. Why not? Because I wouldn’t have friends. Because I want to treat people in my life kindly. I want them to know how much I care about them, etc. Would you let your friends say those things to you? No. Why not? Because they wouldn’t be good friends. I want to be treated kindly by them.

Can healing be a value?

There are lots of areas of life we can address when it comes to personal growth: physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual. We can break these categories down further: spirituality and religion, creativity, developing life skills, meditation and yoga, nature, exercise, nutrition, addressing health risk factors, etc. When it comes to actually setting goals, I like to use values as my base - how do I treat myself, others and the world and go from there.

Yes, our minds can be bullies. I find this particularly when they are being hard on us. And naturally we’ll have a felt bodily reaction to this bullying, much the same way we do when we are being bullied by another person. What can we do when this happens?

Social media and mental health is always a hot topic, even when we’re on social media talking about it. And there is quite a bit of overlap with personal growth work, regardless of how your mental health is while you’re doing this work. I think one of the biggest reasons is the comparisons we naturally make while using social media. While we might use it for inspiration, it often does the opposite and demotivates us. Personally, I am very careful about my social media use because I’ve noticed in the past that it can negatively affect both my mental health and personal development. What are some of the benefits and pitfalls of social media for you?

Most of us have self-talk that isn’t exactly the way we speak to the other people in our lives we care about. It is much more beneficial for our mental health to think of ourselves as friends, to treat ourselves as a friend, and to talk to ourselves as we would a friend. Why do we struggle so much with this? It has a lot to do with the way our brains were wired to originally keep our species alive. Now that original intent is much less helpful. What’s one thing you told yourself today that you can change into something you’d tell a friend?

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