The Window of Tolerance is a visual and metaphorical map of your nervous system. It helps you know when you are triggered and lose your emotional balance, causing painful or frightened responses, or, paradoxically, no response at all. When triggered, we can feel too much (hyper-arousal) which rouses us to action, or too little/numb (hypo-arousal) which allows us to opt out of, or escape perceived discomfort.
A Poetic Study in Looping Guilt (#3)
The Recipe: 4 Steps to Shift Self-Critical Thinking to Self-Awareness, Patience, Kindness, and Compassion (#2)
Self-Critical Loops: How they Begin and How they Spin (#1)
Some of our most painful (and pervasive) thoughts are those that circle around self-blame, shame, self-criticism, perfectionism, self-presentation, and self-expectation. Pessimistic thoughts can lead to negative emotions, and vice versa, creating an overwhelming internal monologue of inaccurate and distorted thinking.
