Grips for the Critic / Coach coin

Clear

• "To have seen it from one side only, is not to have seen it."
• The whole truth is the reconciliation and holding together of opposites.
• The story includes the feeling tone includes the raw data of experience.
• Know well your own faults: "they're stating the obvious".
• Alternate three chair exercise: the (Inner) Critic, the Coach, the Compassionate Observer.

Open

• Respond in ways that open up choices.
• Recommit to valued action.
• Open up.

Forgiving

• Self-forgiveness mitigates negative affect, turns avoid into approach.
• The self is causes, conditions, patterns.
• Imperfections are normal, natural, human.

Added 2023-10-10.