Criticism when you ve had a bad childhood

Being criticised is never pleasant - but when you ve also suffered an unsupportive childhood, it cuts especially deep. In order to bolster our capacity to withstand attacks, we need to unpick the legacy of unhelpful nurture in our early years. For gifts and more from The School of Life, visit our online shop: https://bit.ly/2H6AeEu Join our mailing list: http://bit.ly/2e0TQNJ Our website has classes, articles and products to help you think and grow: https://bit.ly/2IYgpzZ 2J0Dj9L FURTHER READING “Criticism is never easy. To learn that others judge us to be foolish, perverse, ugly or unpleasant is one of the most challenging aspects of any life. However, the impact of criticism is hugely variable – and depends ultimately on a rather unexpected detail: what sort of childhood we have had. The clue to whether criticism will be experienced as merely unpleasant or wholly catastrophic lies in what happened to us many decades ago in the hands of our earliest caregivers…” You can read more on this and other subjects on our blog, here: https://bit.ly/2qDCFs5 MORE SCHOOL OF LIFE Visit us in person at our London HQ: https://bit.ly/2JSTEPa Watch more films in our playlist: https://bit.ly/2g0YFKq You can submit translations and transcripts on all of our videos here: https://www.youtube.com/timedtext_cs_panel?c=UC7IcJI8PUf5Z3zKxnZvTBog&tab=2 Find out how more here: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6054623?hl=en-GB SOCIAL MEDIA Feel free to follow us at the links below: 2J0Dj9L Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theschooloflifelondon/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheSchoolOfLife Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theschooloflifelondon/ CREDITS Produced in collaboration with: Andrei Verioti http://andreiverioti.com/ Sound Design Marian Popescu #TheSchoolOfLife