No matter how loving our parents have been, they will not always have reacted in the ways that we really needed. For some of us, our experience with our parents will have been largely a good one, for others it may have been very bad. Whatever your own experiences, it is likely that as you grew up you learned a range of helpful and unhelpful rules about how you see and judge yourself, other people and the world around you. It is in childhood that these central ways of seeing things are first learned from your relationship with important people such as parents, brothers or sisters. In these
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