EP 302: How to Love All Parts of Yourself with Emily

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This episode is about the parts of ourselves we develop to meet our needs and protect ourselves. Today’s caller, Emily, didn’t have her needs met as a child and her protective strategies are still active in her life. We work through the understanding that even things we may not like about ourselves, or get frustrated by, are things that have positive intentions and are trying to help us.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[For show notes, go here:</span> <a href="http://christinehassler.com/episode302"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Christinehassler.com/episode302</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">]</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We all can be hard on ourselves, especially those of us who have a lot of awareness and have been doing personal development and healing work. Sometimes we get frustrated with ourselves and find ourselves doing things we think we should know better than to do. Or, we know the reason we are doing something but we can’t seem to change it and we judge ourselves.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We have different parts of ourselves that develop over time to protect us and meet our needs. It’s important to be compassionate with these parts, welcome them, and seek to understand them, rather than shame them. That’s when we start making progress.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Compassion and acceptance are absolutely necessary if we want change. So often we go after change by being hard on ourselves, by being judgmental, by being critical or too analytical and we don’t love the parts that are hard to change. But, when we love, accept, and seek to understand them we release their influence over us.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">I have a great course for those who want to be coaches or those who want to learn more about personal development.</span></em> <strong><em>Unleashed</em></strong> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">is a progra