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Good Girl Syndrome | Divorce Recovery | Empty Nest
How to Deal More Easily with Criticism
When we have the pattern of the ‘good girl’ (or the male equivalent ‘nice guy’) we tend to be highly sensitive to criticism and hence struggle with it.
What can be helpful in reducing our sensitivity to criticism is to understand what criticism actually is, or really what is behind it.
Are you Comfortably Numb?
Having recently requested the song ‘Comfortably Numb’ by Pink Floyd at a sing along I attended, I have been wondering how many people go through life numb because it’s comfortable.
It can take some sort of wake up call to realize we’re even caught up in this. Life can slip by when we’re busy in it… with work, with children, with life… and then one day we wake up and realize we’re getting a bit older, our children might have left home, our parents are suddenly looking old or may have even passed on, our relationship might not be going well or have fallen apart… and we realize life isn’t as much fun as it used to be…
Breaking Free from the ‘Good Girl Syndrome’
If you’ve spent your life trying to be the “good girl” — helpful, agreeable, always doing the right thing — but feel burnt out, unseen, or unsure who you really are… this blog is for you. I gently unpack what good girl syndrome is, where it comes from, and how we begin to heal and come home to ourselves.