When we’re feeling judged by someone, it’s common to take it personally and internally start building a case against them. However, this strategy isn’t very sound because we could be imagining their judgment or misinterpreting their behavior. When we find ourselves going down this path, it helps to remember that we can’t really know where they’re coming from. Rarely is anything ever personal. What’s really more important to consider is our reaction to what we think they said or meant. What we heard as a criticism tells us where we’re judging ourselves. We can instead, think of them as our personal…

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