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.
Browsing Tag:
shame
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.
I’m Tired of Apologizing for My Pain.
I’m tired of the uncomfortable gaze, the sudden quietness of conversation. How my guilty admittance of pain has soured an otherwise pleasant day.
You Can Create What You Want.
Even though I knew I needed to take action to create what I wanted, I just couldn’t do it. I couldn’t even hide my resistance.
Why I Didn’t Report: Become Your Story’s Steward Rather Than Its Hostage.
Survivors witness and feel beneath the story... Fragmented, often locked away in an unconscious vault; we banish pain in order to survive it.
Healing from Spiritual Capitalism.
Healing is sold to us as a product to be consumed. Whole industries capitalize on it while gaslighting us, perpetrating the same traumas it claims to heal.
