You can die alive, I have been proving it over the last few months. At first I thought my only way out was to hang myself from something or make a 2-inch slit through one of the great arteries on the side of my neck. But I devised a better plan, one in which I […]
Archives for December 2014
SHAME
Shame is the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that we are flawed and therefore unworthy of love and belonging. I look at myself and I feel shame I look at others and I feel shame I breathe and I feel shame I exist and this is such a fucking shame. So shame on […]
BDD and Vulnerability
I am reading a wonderful book right now – Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead, by Brene Brown. I have read her previous book in 2013 after watching her now famously viral Ted Talk on shame research. It moved me then and her new book brings […]