Self Acceptance

This week I had the opportunity to work with a hypnosis client who wanted to lose weight. She was a single, working mom and felt she had devoted enough time to everyone else and was ready to devote some time to herself. She expressed her frustration with her own decisions and kept saying she “knew” she should make different choices.

My 11 year old son is very insightful and thoughtful. The other day he informed me that he is “not cool” and therefore could not participate in the talent show event at his elementary school. I asked him how he knew he wasn’t “cool.” He answered that “everyone knows who is cool and who is not, mom.”
 

When dealing with difficult people, an important question we need to ask ourselves is,are they really that difficult? Often, labeling other people as “difficult” is another way of saying “they are different than I am.”