Im Ok, You’re Ok – TA Psychological Positions

Im Ok, You’re Ok – TA Psychological Positions

Home Im Ok, You’re Ok – TA Psychological Positions Kids are forced to make decisions about themselves — Im Ok or Not Ok — and other people — You’re Ok or Not Ok — much too early in life when they grow up in a...
Im Ok, You’re Ok – TA Psychological Positions

Time Killer Strategies – TA

Time Killer Strategies – TA [wpseo_breadcrumb]   Human beings have automated, subconscious “time killer” programs to help stave off boredom, receive strokes, and pass time — first you’re born… then you die… but...
The Five Drivers & The Safety Net

The Five Drivers & The Safety Net

Home The Five Drivers & The Safety Net The Five Drivers, play a big role in the development of the invented self and managing the impressions of others. The first five counter-injunctions listed below are known in TA as The Five Drivers because they...
Fear of Abandonment & the Inner Child

Fear of Abandonment & the Inner Child

Home Fear of Abandonment & the Inner Child Fear of abandonment is almost always a direct result of feeling or being abandoned at some point in childhood. This real or perceived abandonment is traumatic to children causing fragmentations of the Self. The study of...
Fear of Abandonment & the Inner Child

Grief Work and Adult/Child Recovery

Home Grief Work and Adult/Child Recovery Grief work and Adult/Child recovery often go hand-in-hand because growing up in a less-than-nurturing family system mean multiple losses – loss of relationships, loss of love, and loss of identity – in general, loss...
The Five Drivers & The Safety Net

Adult Children of Divorce

Home Adult Children of Divorce Adult children of divorce, alcoholics, or other dysfunctional families share some of the same outcomes in their lives: problems with chronic depression, intimacy, and fears of abandonment. The “Inner Child” evolved from...