Odyssey
Hypnosis
Humanist

Can we become better without mistreating ourselves? You remember the email we have been following since the start of this series, the one you wrote, read over, corrected, read again, and whose attachment, recipient, spelling and wording you checked a hundred times… The one where everything was fine, and yet, just as you were about to click “Send”, something stopped you again. A thought that had every appearance of good sense: “If I stop checking now, I’m bound to let some

This voice that is never satisfied Remember the email you read over and over again… The one you edited, then re-edited, then re-edited again… and had such trouble sending… With that question echoing in your head: “Is this clear enough?” — and which had become, without your noticing: “Am I competent enough?” And then at last… after agonising over it for an endless stretch of time, you sent it. A few hours later, the reply arrived… You opened the message… with a sligh

When correcting yourself becomes condemning yourself You've written an email — simple, nothing out of the ordinary. Just a few lines. But it hardly matters. Because you read it back, once. You change a word, then read it back again. And that little voice in your head, asking: “Isn't that sentence a little too… direct? ” So you rework the sentence a little, you add a turn of phrase, then take it out, and you check the spelling for the eighth time, because that nagging