How useful is it to compare yourself to others?
There is a dichotomy with comparisons sometimes it is healthy to compare yourself to others, if that is in say a sports or work field and seeing how you are doing alongside your peers.
When it comes to healing from emotional trauma or a physical injury comparing or having it compared to someone else injuries isn't useful it diminishes your ability to heal and minimises what you have gone through.
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00:00 Intro
01:34 “The Tao of Fully Healing” paragraph
02:15 The negative impacts of comparisons
02:45 Experience and emotional denial
03:45 Survivors' guilt and devaluing
04:56 Discounting as a barrier to healing
06:13 Comparison as a conversational deflection
06:22 Am I hurt enough to deserve help?
07:29 When “How are you?” makes us uncomfortable
09:26 Why do these conversations scare us?
10:00 Conversational bartering
10:44 Our conversation comfort zone?
11:46 Listening or fixing ears?
12:33 Acknowledging our own experiences
13:18 Our internal judgements and stories
14:44 Good versus Bad Comparisons
16:27 Perspective and the impact of our thinking!
18:35 Measures of comparison
19:43 Health checking our comparisons
22:42 How are you using comparison?
23:07 Key takeaways
26:27 Outro and how to contact us