“You can’t find intimacy-you can’t find home-when you’re always hiding behind masks. Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you exposing your fragmented, contradictory self to someone else. You running the risk of having your core self rejected and hurt and misunderstood ( Read more... )

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Animation of Brene Brown's talk on empathy

I finished reading Daring Greatly by Brene Brown today. Really great read, I highly recommend.

A few thoughts and aha! moments:

• Shame resilience includes recognizing when shame is occurring from societal expectations/structural causes. So recognizing when I'm feeling body image shame because of societal expectations is a good way to counter that ( Read more... )

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