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How Our Core Beliefs Impact Our Love Life

It Takes Action

Think About Your Thinking: a 2020 Reflection

Dr. Alexis Moreno

Psychologist, Dating & Relationship Expert

Some feelings of worthlessness, when I have an opinion it feels that people often dismiss or reject them


Core beliefs

I learned that my social anxiety is rooted in my core beliefs of being unliked or judged for being awkward and weird.

What’s my core belief about likeability

I wasn’t really loved as a child so I compensate by loving harder and more quickly as an adult. I hold on tightly. More then I probably should. My love is more like a train traveling at high speed, when it hits you it’s like a train hitting you. So the person feels overwhelmed by it. For me love is Almost like a need not a choice. I love hard and I am loyal to the core. 

Core beliefs 

how much i needed to learn about core beliefs and/or automatic thoughts!

Learning... NEVER ends! 

I’m seeing that even after decades of self work the original core belief of not being good enough is still activated on occasion.  Time to be kind to myself.

We're going cognitively deep here. Moving through our surface-level thoughts to our core beliefs.