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When Shame Keeps You In Hiding
As part of an online accountability group for a "healthy lifestyle," I’ve signed up for a few fairly awkward things. For one, I tell a group of about 20 people how much I weigh every day. Thankfully, others on the group “weigh in” too (literally speaking) so it’s not overly embarrassing.
Other things we do include ...
What’s So Amazing About Guilt?
Guilt has a bad rap. For obvious reasons.
It dredges up memories we would rather forget and swirls up emotions we would rather ignore. No one wants to feel guilty. Or, as we like to say, no one wants to go on a “guilt trip.”
Guilt “trips” are not fun little vacations. They usually make us want ...
The Word That May Become Obsolete
It’s a word relegated to courtroom dramas where the jury delivers a verdict.
Other than that, it doesn’t bubble up too often in popular culture. It’s considered an ugly word that has no room in our “evolved” modern lives.
I’m speaking of the word, “guilt.”
In our “no regrets” culture, guilt is a taboo emotion, and is used ...
Dear Mama, Your Love Doesn’t Divide, It Multiplies
You couldn’t wait for your firstborn to have a sibling.
You had visions of the two of them sharing the Peppa Pig tent that’s swallowed half the real estate in your formerly formal living room.
You’d pictured them building teetering LEGO towers together.
You’d even planned on how you’d settle those inevitable sibling spats.
But what you hadn’t predicted was the ...
MEET SUSAN
