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Unconscious Deservedness: Accepting What You Don’t Truly Deserve?

Leave a Comment / Self-Worth / By Melinda Cates

Unconscious deservedness often shapes our experiences, leading us to accept less than we truly deserve. Many of us navigate life with ingrained beliefs that dictate our worth, settling into routines and situations without questioning whether they genuinely reflect our value. This silent acceptance can keep us trapped, preventing us from recognizing our true potential and […]

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Seeing Your Worth Through Others Eyes

2 Comments / Self-Worth / By Melinda Cates

Do you struggle to recognize your worth and value, in what you do and more importantly in who you are? Do you experience feelings of unworthiness, and not being of value even though deep down inside you know otherwise? This struggle to acknowledge your worth and value stems from how your worth and value were

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Episode 34: Healing Your Relationship With Your Parents

By Melinda Cates

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Episode 34: Healing Your Relationship With Your Parents

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Episode 34: Healing Your Relationship With Your Parents There is profound value in exploring the complex dynamic between you and your parents or parental figures. Whether your upbringing was filled with love and beauty, marked by pain and hurt, or a combination of both, your relationship with your parents holds essential keys to your personal

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Episode 33: Stop Paying People To Have Coffee With You

By Melinda Cates

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Episode 33: Stop Paying People To Have Coffee With You

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Episode 33: Stop Paying People To Have Coffee With You In your friendships, are you the one who keeps them going? Do you initiate the contact, and put in the time and effort? You may even be like I used to be where you find when you go for coffee, out to lunch or dinner

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Episode 27: Holiday Time And Emotional Triggers

By Melinda Cates

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Episode 27: Holiday Time And Emotional Triggers

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Episode 27: Holiday Time And Emotional Triggers This time of year is powerful on so many levels. It is a time to celebrate and enjoy family and friends. Yet the coming together of family, having time away from your daily routine where you have space to think and feel, missing people who have been a

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Episode 26: The Truth About Boundaries

By Melinda Cates

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Episode 26: The Truth About Boundaries

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Episode 26: The Truth About Boundaries Boundary setting is encouraged. You probably believe that boundary setting is about valuing yourself. But is it? In this episode I explore the truth about boundaries. One of the truths is you set boundaries for you, with you. You are limiting yourself from doing what you have previously done,

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The Truth About Boundaries

Leave a Comment / Emotional Healing, Personal Processing, True Self / By Melinda Cates

TRUTHS ABOUT BOUNDARIES… One of the truths, is: the boundaries you create ARE FOR YOU, not for the other person. Boundaries are guidelines for management of our own insecurities, our well-being and comfort, rather than as restrictions imposed on others. WHY DO WE NEED TO HAVE BOUNDARIES? Boundaries are invisible lines, that define the space

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The Underestimated Power Of Neediness

Leave a Comment / Emotional Healing, Underlying Emotional Issues / By Melinda Cates

Have you been told “You’re Needy”? If you have, what was your reaction to it? A gut punch, a squirm, anger, or even a shout of denial “No I’m not”? THIS IS THE UNDERESTIMATED POWER OF NEEDINESS It has a lot of power over you, because it generally is perceived as a weakness or dependency,

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Episode 25: The Relationship Between My Soul And Self-Responsibility

By Melinda Cates

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Episode 25: The Relationship Between My Soul And Self-Responsibility

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Episode 25: The Relationship Between My Soul And Self-Responsibility Having explored in the previous two episodes responsibility and self-responsibility, how do these states of being and qualities relate to the world of your soul? THIS EPISODE You will: Explore responsibility and self-responsibility in terms of your soul Come to know how being responsible is innate

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Episode 24: Over-Responsibility – Do You Take Responsibility For Others?

By Melinda Cates

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Episode 24: Over-Responsibility - Do You Take Responsibility For Others?

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Episode 24: Over-Responsibility – Do You Take Responsibility For Others? Are you over-responsible? Do you take responsibility for adults and fulfill their responsibilities? Do you parent adults? Because if you are over-responsible, that is what you are doing. If your answer is yes to these questions, then you have learned to take responsibility for others.

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