hypnowithdean

There is a question I have started to think about more and more when I find myself going back over something that happened in the past: if I am going to tell this story, either to myself or to somebody else, is telling it going to help me now or in the future? If it isn’t, why am I telling it? I like the question because it does not tell me that I should forget the past, pretend something did not happen, or excuse people who may have hurt me. It is much simpler than that. It asks me to think...

\ For a long time, I used to say that I hated Newcastle. I said it quite easily and, at the time, I genuinely believed it. I moved away in my early twenties purely because of work. It was a career move and that was the reason I left, but at the same time I was happy to be going because of some of the things I was leaving behind. There had been family fallouts and difficult situations going on around that period of my life, and although they were not the reason I moved away, they certainly...

In part one, I wrote about how Ted Lasso gets us to look at other people differently. Not to excuse bad behaviour, but to try and understand what might be going on underneath it, and how that understanding can sometimes change the way we respond. For part two, I wanted to turn that around a little, because something else struck me while watching it. We don't just interpret other people's behaviour all the time, we are also constantly adjusting our own. Depending on where we are, who we are...