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The stories you repeat make up your personal history and identity.
They include the place and time you were born, the way it was in your family, the things that happened to you, the things you did, the things others did, your first love, and your first betrayal.
It goes on and on—as long as you repeat it.
When you really look at your self-stories, you may discover that they’re repetitive and even arbitrary, depending on your mood.
It’s likely that the details don’t even match up with those in the stories of your parents or closest siblings.
A good question is “Who would you be without your story?”
Seeing yourself without your story is an excellent way to let go of taking things personally (which can be very helpful with shame and inadequacy).
Self-authorship begins very early in life in our responses to our caregivers.
If we are raised in a safe and secure environment in which we feel accepted and validated, we tend to have more self-compassion and less self-criticism (Neff and McGehee 2008).
But if our caregivers are more critical or aggressive or we feel unsafe with them for any reason, we tend to become more self-critical and insecure as we grow older (Gilbert and Proctor 2006).
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