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We Are Responsible for Our Own Feelings

Posted on August 30, 2008

Why does he make me feel this way? What was going through my mother s head when said such hurtful things to me? Can t my boss tell that his words cut me down and make me feel so small? These are examples of our thinking sometimes when we feel hurt, ashamed, or angry that the other person or some external event is making us feel the way we do. But is it? Can someone else make us feel a certain way? Can an event in our life directly cause us to feel a specific way? Michael Edelstein, in his book Three Minute Therapy, argues the line of cognitive-behaviorists and rational emotive therapi...

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