When Others' Don't Like Or Criticize Us

In this excerpt from our Weekly Sangha on IT, we explore the common experience of facing criticism or disapproval from others and how we can approach these moments with wisdom and compassion. We can't avoid the experience but we can transform it.

Reviews

I interesting about not everyone is going to like us and the sting of rejection and what’ is beneath that. Thank you. Very insightful

Having a moment with my daughter. TY for this lesson.

It seems like I get hurt every day by someone so I just give up and try to avoid making friends. I just really believe I’m an unlikable person.

great talk and very helpful and insightful. some days i feel like i was born without the guidelines book that i think everybody else got. case in point. i know not to allow others treatment of me determine who i am. and yet again and again if a person rolls their eyes, or judges me …im shattered. i’m very outward focused even though i have this awareness and remind myself not to be outward focused. it’s like a hard wiring. and like you said, maybe it’s the culture i grew up in.

i really related to the the jack cornfield story. how do i (we) get to a place where (after sitting with the hurt and processing the hurt) how do i get to a place where im more stable, more solid in my self worth? a place where i’m not “blown about by every little wind “ and a self belief that im inherently good regardless of other people’s comments, judgements or behavior towards me?