Embrace Your Death Mother Archetype to Fully Heal.
Death Mother lives in shame and secrecy, and the best way to deal with her is to bring her out into the light so we can cultivate self-compassion.
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I Peel the Bark off the Trees and See My Skin.
Next time you are near trees, touch your palm to their bodies and think of all of history’s petrified wood, how each ring circling inside it tells a story.
Liberate Yourself From the Shadow of Shame.
Shame make us feel extremely burdened. Over time, we internalize this idea that we are, in fact, 'sinful', bad, ugly people.
Love Isn’t Complicity With Racist/Sexist Systems.
When you see people out there getting MAD AF in 2020, don't shrink away, enlighten yourself enough to see it as the truest expression of unconditional love.
My Journey with Sex, Shame, Intimacy and Celibacy.
I want true intimacy with another, there is no doubt about that, but I am not willing to bypass any part of myself to get to someone else.
Are You Postponing the Feeling of Being Wrong?
What I realize is that I was postponing shame. I was postponing what I considered the inevitable... though I know that my friend would never shame me.
True Love Is Where No Shame Exists.
Not one of us can know the thousands of internal steps it took another to break through the fold, defy all odds, purge through lifetimes, lineages of shame.
The Spiritual Practice of ‘No Shame’.
The deep sense of failure and worthlessness this inspires leads them down a deeper and deeper hole of guilt and shame, which makes them try even harder.
Reaching Outside Relationships for Help with Them Is Not a Failure.
Do you consider it a failure when you have to go to the garage because you’re having car trouble? Do you feel you have failed when you go to the dentist for your yearly check-up? What about going to the gym? Do you feel like a failure when you sign up for that gym membership because you should ...
Disconnection and the Epic Wake-Up Call of Parenting.
All who want to die in any given moment feel crippling disconnection... but the silence of shame and the disease of perfectionism keeps us from saying it.