What IF...
...we lived our lives with authenticity? What if we weren't afraid to face those forces that motivate us? What if we looked at Shame in the face and defied its hold on our lives?
Shame is something everyone has. It is the most primitive human emotion. It is that voice that tells us we aren't good enough (pretty enough, smart enough, thin enough), so we try to be everything to everyone, we try to be perfect wives, perfect mothers, perfectly balanced inside and out.
We medicate ourselves with alcohol, with relationships, with a cabinet full of drugs, with distractions, always protecting us from our own reality.
In order to avoid being exposed for the fraud that we are, we pretend that we are doing all of this until we fall apart, we drop all of our balls and plates, and we sit on the floor surrounded by a mess of brokenness. But connection is why we're here. Relationship is why we are in this world, and yet our deepest struggles with shame we carry alone.
How different would our world be if we simply allowed ourselves to be excruciatingly vulnerable?
According to Dr. Brene Brown, shame is something we all have. It is something none of us talk about. And the more we don't talk about it, the more we have it. She is talking about this in the video below. I think this is something every person needs to hear.
...we lived our lives with authenticity? What if we weren't afraid to face those forces that motivate us? What if we looked at Shame in the face and defied its hold on our lives?
What if we simply acknowledged shame exists?
We medicate ourselves with alcohol, with relationships, with a cabinet full of drugs, with distractions, always protecting us from our own reality.
In order to avoid being exposed for the fraud that we are, we pretend that we are doing all of this until we fall apart, we drop all of our balls and plates, and we sit on the floor surrounded by a mess of brokenness. But connection is why we're here. Relationship is why we are in this world, and yet our deepest struggles with shame we carry alone.
How different would our world be if we simply allowed ourselves to be excruciatingly vulnerable?
According to Dr. Brene Brown, shame is something we all have. It is something none of us talk about. And the more we don't talk about it, the more we have it. She is talking about this in the video below. I think this is something every person needs to hear.
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