Many people’s anxiety, expresses genuine concerns, but if those are caused by society, and society denies that need to change, then that individual will be blamed, for wanting change, and not accepting the norm.
What makes people fearful is not just their amygdala and past trauma; it is also living in environments – families, communities, media ecosystems, that repeatedly tell them “you are not safe, you are not enough, and danger is everywhere.”
When senior leaders rely on dichotomous (black/white) framing under conditions of stress, competition, or political threat, organisational actors create and enforce information-filters (gatekeepers, shadow channels) that preserve apparent unity while displacing unresolved tensions into inverted compartmentalised stovepipes — damaging decision quality and situational awareness.
Within parts working, there is the concept of the inner-critic. This is the source of internal self-criticism, and often seen as a source of depression and a pessimistic outlook. In this article, we suggest that this inner critic, was once an inner-supporter, that became rejected and dissociated into take on that oppositional role.
Welcome to Training the Ego. This is your simple guide to understanding and becoming the person you want to be – your true self. I’ve tried to make it simple, so that anyone can read and understand it, yet the concepts here are incredibly powerful. And if used correctly, can lead an individual to true self-transcendence, where they have complete mastery of self in all its guises.
This article looks into the basic family relationship, as driven by our genetic need for connection, support, nurturing and protection. We then propose a typical dysfunctional scenario, based on parents that are avoidant of that connection. It proposes that this scenario will result in children that will include a scapegoat, who may well develop C-PTSD based Stockholm Syndrome, before they are old enough to verbalise their long-term abuse. It also introduces a new term – Puppy-dog Syndrome, to describe one of the observable behaviours of children that have had this childhood.
In the Coping Paradox, the paradox lies in the fact that coping is both necessary for resilience and, when unmanaged, a source of vulnerability.
Toxicity from one’s local environment can come in many forms. Overall, we can say that toxicity is something that challenges us, something that serves to restrict our true, or desired expression, or intention, in that moment.
In this article, we will provide an introduction to these two concepts and discuss how they relate to each other and to human well-being.