Companions · 01
The Prison of Valuation
When valuing itself becomes the problem.
Who this is for
For you, if you often judge yourself harshly, feel ashamed of your reactions, or are caught between “too much” and “not enough”.
What this is about
This is about the state in which you constantly value your own feelings instead of seeing them. The prison arises through internalised standards, and the valuing itself is part of the pattern.
More on this: understanding self-worth, shame and inner valuation →
What happens on the path
You make the deeper logic visible: how early experiences of fear, attachment and recognition shaped your self, how childhood survival strategies became an inner judge, and how this gives rise to a split into a free and a conditioned self. In this way the causal chains that otherwise steer your behaviour unconsciously become visible.
What you look at along the way
- · Recognising your inner logic of valuation
- · Decoupling self-image and self-worth
- · Ordering the cycles of love, fear and valuation
Explainer video
Take a look.
A calm visual introduction to the Prison of Valuation. The style is deliberately unhurried; you can let it play through once without taking any notes.
How you can begin
Choose your path
This companion is available as an app (audiobook and text), as an album of songs for the companion, and as a book series. You choose how you begin.
App · audiobook and text
On the platform you open the chapter-path format. The first exercises are unlocked from chapter 11 onwards; before that comes the reading and mini-check build-up.
Open in the appSongs for the companion
The songs for this companion are released as an album on Spotify and YouTube.
Coming soonContinue to the other companions: Schema-B · Coping with Conflict