Punishing yourself for your mistakes

The Overwhelmed Brain

Paul Colaianni: Emotional Abuse and Relationship Expert

Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.5 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2015

⏱️ 74 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

It's bad enough to get punished by someone else when you make a mistake, but to compound the suffering by punishing yourself can make things so much worse. Sure, we can beat ourselves up for our own actions, but when we make a habit of it, our quality of life decreases and it's hard to enjoy the present moment.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	In case you didn't know, I host another podcast called Love and Abuse, and it's all about how to navigate difficult relationships.
0:07.0	What do you do or say when someone gives you the silent treatment?
0:11.0	How do you respond to someone who turns everything back on you?
0:14.0	I answer those questions and so much more on the Love and Abuse Podcast.
0:17.6	Head over to love and abuse.com.
0:20.4	Life presents the toughest challenges.
0:22.6	Every day you are faced with decisions that test your ability to express who you really want to be in this world.
0:29.0	We're told to keep saying affirmations and keep thinking positively, but what do you do when that stuff
0:34.8	doesn't work? Welcome to the overwhelmed brain where you'll learn to make decisions
0:39.8	that are right for you so that you can create the life you need to deal
0:59.8	with life's challenges in the most emotionally intelligent way. This show consists of my personal
1:05.0	opinions and is meant for informational purposes only. Always seek a professional for your
1:09.2	mental health and well-being. So glad that you are here once again if you are a regular
1:14.5	listener or if you just decided to tune in a second time to find out if what I'm
1:19.6	sharing is valuable and if you are a regular listener welcome back like I said and I'm
1:26.3	going to get right to today's topic which is an email that I received a long
1:30.1	time ago I just never had a chance to address it and I'm not going to
1:33.6	read you the whole thing I'm just gonna read you right near the end this person
1:38.6	had a difficult childhood with a loveless father I think and they got into a few
1:47.2	relationships that were very toxic and now she's in a great relationship at
1:51.7	least I think she still is, I hope so, and she told a white lie.
1:58.6	And the lie was noticed by her partner, he said no you know don't lie and she felt awful and he
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Paul Colaianni: Emotional Abuse and Relationship Expert, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Paul Colaianni: Emotional Abuse and Relationship Expert and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.