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 […]
“LUCKY”
In the exam room chair, a chair where 1000’s of other anxious souls have sat before me, they took 15 minutes and a 10 blade and they cut into my nose. What was left, was a gaping 1 inch hole. They called me a week later to tell me the results were benign, they told […]
Selfie
I was at the falls with my kids. The sun was pouring through the mist, the emerald green of the trees and bouncing off the lichen… it was spectacular. I snapped some shots of the kids and then my daughter asked me to take a “selfie.” So I leaned down and flipped the camera lens […]
Stop the Madness
I went out without makeup on my nose today, inspired by a story I saw on the news about a childhood burn victim. Her face was horribly disfigured in a car accident when she was 7. Her face had melted off, separated from its bony scaffolding. The doctors debated whether or not to let her […]
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