This is a blog that I’ve wanted to write for ages, as it’s the thing that comes up so often in therapy sessions that gives people a lot of pain. I learned about this principle when I was doing my PTSD training but actually it doesn’t just apply to trauma, it applies to the whole range of psychological distress. The Double Arrow effect takes its name from a Buddhist parable the Tale of Two Arrows and its used widely in Mindfulness to describe how we judge ourselves for feeli