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Go Only As Fast As Your Slowest Part Feels Safe To Go: Tales To Kindle Gentleness and Compassion For Our Exhausted Selves
Go Only As Fast As Your Slowest Part Feels Safe To Go Tales To Kindle Gentleness and Compassion For Our Exhausted Selves Author:Robyn L Posin Ph.D. In this collection of emotionally uncensored tales, the author ? a licensed psychologist ? shares lessons learned from a life dedicated to healing from the ravages of self-criticism and super-achievement that plague most of us, particularly women. The tales are teaching stories through which the reader vicariously experiences ways to move from s... more »elf-reproach to self-nurture and self-acceptance. Against the backdrop of a world that presses us always to do more, bigger, faster yesterday, the book ? through its confirmations and reminders of long forgotten or culturally suppressed truths about the need to take the very best care of our own vulnerable selves ? offers much solace. The tales reveal doorways and encouragement for developing a fiercely protective, tender inner caregiver who can help transform the undermining inner critic that tyrannizes so many of us. Unlike most psychologist-authors, Robyn L. Posin, Ph.D. (licensed to practice since 1966) has used stories from her own life rather than those from the lives of clients she has helped to heal. Her life experience is testimony to the possibility of transforming even the most virulent inner critic into a gentle ally. Rather than presenting formulas and exercises that typify the self-help genre, Posin?s life tales ? each underscoring a seed of permission or healthy reframing ? allow and encourage the reader to identify and discover just how that seed might translate into their own life idiom. The lessons of radical self-care, self-compassion and self love in these pages help one to kindle an inner dialog that can be life changing. The stories may open readers to a more kind-hearted relationship with themselves. They repeatedly remind readers to go more slowly, to honor and make safe space to feel all their feelings, to remember that rest is a sacred act and to know that it is possible to compassionately embrace all the ways that they are: ever-evolving, warts and all, works-in-progress always doing the best they can with the consciousness available to them in the moment.« less